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Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcification

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Coronary Radiology

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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A number of radiological techniques have the potential to detect calcification of the coronary arteries, namely plain chest radiography, fluoroscopy, conventional computed tomography (CT), electron-beam tomography (EBT), multi-detector CT, intravascular ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography. We will discuss the methods that are most commonly used for visualization of coronary calcification in turn. Coronary calcification has been demonstrated incidentally with plain chest radiography. However, most patients with coronary artery disease have no visible calcifications in the coronary arteries on chest radiographs. The accuracy of chest radiography was 42% compared to fluoroscopy, which is also an insensitive technique (see below) (SouzA et al. 1978).

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Groningen, P.O. Box 30 001, 9700 RB, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Rozemarijn Vliegenthart MSc, PhD

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Vliegenthart, R. (2004). Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcification. In: Oudkerk, M. (eds) Coronary Radiology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06419-1_10

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