Cardiac CT for the detection of vulnerable plaque

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 260-261

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b   Maffei, Erica ^a  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIAC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84963946932     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: 20472412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jev307     Document Type: Editorial

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