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Image assessment and post-processing with multislice CT angiography in highly calcified coronary arteries

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Acknowledgements

J.D. Schuijf is financially supported by The Netherlands Heart Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands, grant number 2002B105.

G. Pundziute is financially supported by the Training Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology and the Huygens scholarship, The Netherlands.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Gabija Pundziute, Joanne D. Schuijf, Jeroen J. Bax & Ernst E. van der Wall

  2. Department of Cardiology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Gabija Pundziute

  3. The Interuniversity Institute of the Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Joanne D. Schuijf & Ernst E. van der Wall

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Pundziute, G., Schuijf, J.D., Bax, J.J. et al. Image assessment and post-processing with multislice CT angiography in highly calcified coronary arteries. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 22, 533–536 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-005-9060-9

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