Relationship between Quantitative Adverse Plaque Features from Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography and Downstream Impaired Myocardial Flow Reserve by 13N-Ammonia Positron Emission Tomography: A Pilot Study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Dey, Damini ^a   Diaz Zamudio, Mariana ^a   Schuhbaeck, Annika ^b   Juarez Orozco, Luis Eduardo ^c   Otaki, Yuka ^a   Gransar, Heidi ^a   Li, Debiao ^a   Germano, Guido ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^b   Berman, Daniel S ^a   Meave, Aloha ^d   Alexanderson, Erick ^c,e   Slomka, Piotr J ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Departments of Nuclear Cardiology   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CARDIOLOGÍA IGNACIO CHÁVEZ   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Angiography; atherosclerotic; coronary stenosis; fractional flow reserve; myocardial; plaque; positron emission tomography; tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; AMMONIA; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; PET-CT SCANNER; PILOT STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AMMONIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84945901870     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.003255     Document Type: Article

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