Coronary CT angiography versus intravascular ultrasound for estimation of coronary stenosis and atherosclerotic plaque burden: a meta-analysis

C Fischer, E Hulten, P Belur, R Smith, S Voros… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Numerous studies have compared coronary CT angiography (CTA) with
quantitativecoronary angiography. However, the ability of coronary CTA to identify …

Noninvasive imaging of atherosclerotic plaque progression: status of coronary computed tomography angiography

V Sandfort, JAC Lima, DA Bluemke - Circulation: Cardiovascular …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
The process of coronary artery disease progression is infrequently visualized. Intravascular
ultrasound has been used to gain important insights but is invasive and therefore limited to …

Automatic quantification and characterization of coronary atherosclerosis with computed tomography coronary angiography: cross-correlation with intravascular …

MA De Graaf, A Broersen, PH Kitslaar, CJ Roos… - The international journal …, 2013 - Springer
Plaque constitution on computed tomography coronary angiography (CTA) is associated
with prognosis. At present only visual assessment of plaque constitution is possible. An …

Automated quantification of coronary plaque with computed tomography: comparison with intravascular ultrasound using a dedicated registration algorithm for fusion …

MJ Boogers, A Broersen, JE Van Velzen… - European heart …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Aims Previous studies have used semi-automated approaches for coronary plaque
quantification on multi-detector row computed tomography (CT), while an automated …

Clinical feasibility of 3D automated coronary atherosclerotic plaque quantification algorithm on coronary computed tomography angiography: comparison with …

HB Park, BK Lee, S Shin, R Heo, R Arsanjani… - European …, 2015 - Springer
Objective To evaluate the diagnostic performance of automated coronary atherosclerotic
plaque quantification (QCT) by different users (expert/non-expert/automatic). Methods One …

Influence of slice thickness and reconstruction kernel on the computed tomographic attenuation of coronary atherosclerotic plaque

S Achenbach, K Boehmer, T Pflederer, D Ropers… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The computed tomographic (CT) attenuation of coronary atherosclerotic
plaque has been proposed as a marker for tissue characterization and may thus potentially …

Quantification of coronary plaque by 64-slice computed tomography: a comparison with quantitative intracoronary ultrasound

M Otsuka, N Bruining, NC Van Pelt… - Investigative …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Background: Noninvasive assessment of coronary atherosclerotic plaque may be useful for
risk stratification and treatment of atherosclerosis. Materials and Methods: We studied 47 …

Noncalcified atherosclerotic plaque burden at coronary CT angiography: a better predictor of ischemia at stress myocardial perfusion imaging than calcium score and …

RW Bauer, C Thilo, SA Chiaramida… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between the coronary CT
angiographic findings of calcified and noncalcified plaque burden and stenosis severity and …

Automated quantification of stenosis severity on 64-slice CT: a comparison with quantitative coronary angiography

MJ Boogers, JD Schuijf, PH Kitslaar… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2010 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to demonstrate the feasibility of a dedicated algorithm for
automated quantification of stenosis severity on multislice computed tomography in …

Accuracy of dual-source CT in the characterisation of non-calcified plaque: use of a colour-coded analysis compared with virtual histology intravascular ultrasound

H Brodoefel, C Burgstahler… - The British journal of …, 2009 - birpublications.org
Non-invasive assessment of plaque volume and composition is important for risk
stratification and long-term studies of plaque stabilisation. Our aim was to evaluate dual …