Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 64-65 , January 2008

Author Response: Should we include full field of view in assessment of cardiac CT?

  • Matthew Budoff, MD

      Affiliations

    • Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Division of Cardiology, Saint John’s Cardiovascular Research Center, 1124 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
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  • Ambarish Gopal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance, CA, USA

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  4. Onuma Y, Tanabe K, Nakazawa G, Auki J, Nakajima H, Ibukuro K, et al. Noncardiac findings in cardiac imaging with multidetector computed tomography. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;48:402–406

PII: S1934-5925(07)00364-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2007.12.003

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 64-65 , January 2008

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