Massachusetts General Hospital
16-slice multi-detector CT permits accurate quantification of coronary artery stenosis
Published in Telemedicine Law Weekly, May 6th, 2006
According to recent research from the United States, "Sixteen-slice multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) permits reliable noninvasive detection of significant coronary stenosis based on qualitative visual assessment. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of MDCT to quantify the degree of coronary stenosis as compared to quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) using two different reconstruction methods."
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