The advent of MDCT has introduced an exciting dimension to existing radiology practice. With the latest hardware and software refinements, cardiac CT imaging is relatively straightforward and simple to perform and interpret. Perhaps this is best seen by the rapid progress of nonradiologists ...
Section of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sutter Memorial Hospital, 5301 F Street, Suite 312, Sacramento, California, 95819, USA Bradley J. Harlan MD (Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery) Davis Medical School, University of Califorania, 5301 F Street, Suite...
Two CDKN2B-AS1 primer pairs were designed using the EpiDesigner tool from Sequenom: forward: 5′-aggaagagagTTTTTGTTTTTTAGTTGGAAAGGAG-3′ and reverse: 5′-agtaatacgactcactatagggagaaggctATCCTTTATATCTAACCCATTTTTATTT-3′ (product size: 594, number of CpG’s: 43, coverage: 30); forward:...
The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) began in July 2000. The prospective study included 6,814 men and women between the ages of 45 and 84. The researchers compared CT image data for 3,252 participants with calcific plaque to data collected from 3,416 patients without calcific plaq...
"In addition, the newer CT scans have the added advantages of being easier on the patient, taking less time to perform, using less radiation, and providing physicians with all the information they need in one test," says George, an assistant professor and director of the CT Perfusion Laborato...
Clinical value of multidetector CT coronary angiography as a preoperative screening test before non-coronary cardiac surgery OBJECTIVE: Myocardial scintigraphy and/or conventional angiography (CA) are often performed before cardiac surgery in an attempt to identify unsuspected co... V Russo,V Gostoli,...
Deep learning for automatic calcium scoring in CT: Validation using multiple cardiac CT and chest CT protocols. Radiology 2020, 295, 66–79. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Razzak, M.I.; Naz, S.; Zaib, A. Deep learning for medical image processing: Overview, challenges and the ...