Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 165-171 , May 2010

Efficacy of dual-source CT coronary angiography in evaluating coronary stenosis: initial experience

  • Hong-wei Chen

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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  • Xiang-ming Fang

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Imaging Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China. Tel.: +86 510 85350235; fax: +86 510 85350555.
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  • Xiao-yun Hu

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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  • Jian Bao

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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  • Chun-hong Hu

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 215006, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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  • Yin Chen

      Affiliations

    • Imaging Center, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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  • Zhen-yu Yang

      Affiliations

    • Cardiologic Medicine, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China
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  • Lerner Alexander

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, LAC+USC Medical Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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  • Xiao-qing Wu

      Affiliations

    • Cardiologic Medicine, Wuxi People's Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, 214023, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China

Received 26 March 2009 ,Accepted 5 May 2009.

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PII: S0899-7071(09)00360-X

doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.05.012

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 165-171 , May 2010

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