Accuracy of Computed Tomographic Angiography and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography-Acquired Myocardial Perfusion Imaging for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Arbab Zadeh, Armin ^a   Carli, Marcelo F Di ^b   Cerci, Rodrigo ^a   George, Richard T ^a   Chen, Marcus Y ^c   Dewey, Marc ^d   Niinuma, Hiroyuki ^e   Vavere, Andrea L ^a   Betoko, Aisha ^f   Plotkin, Michail ^d   Cox, Christopher ^f   Clouse, Melvin E ^g   Arai, Andrew E ^c   Rochitte, Carlos E ^h   Lima, Joao A C ^a   Brinker, Jeffrey ^a   Miller, Julie M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Department of Radiology ^*  (Germany)

^e ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; coronary artery disease; myocardial ischemia; myocardial perfusion imaging; ROC curve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ACQUIRED MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84945907852     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.003533     Document Type: Article

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