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Prospective electrocardiogram-gating: a new direction for CT coronary angiography?

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The synopsis was written by Alexandra King, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. SV Gurudevan is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratories and J Narula is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology, at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.,

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Gurudevan, S., Narula, J. Prospective electrocardiogram-gating: a new direction for CT coronary angiography?. Nat Rev Cardiol 5, 366–367 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1224

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