Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 24-31 , January 2009

Assessment of nonstenotic coronary lesions by 64-slice multidetector computed tomography in comparison to intravascular ultrasound: Evaluation of nonculprit coronary lesions

  • Milena Petranovic, BA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Anand Soni, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Hiram Bezzera, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Ricardo Loureiro, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Ammar Sarwar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Chris Raffel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Eugene Pomerantsev, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Ik-Kyung Jang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Thomas J. Brady, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Stephan Achenbach, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine II (Cardiology), University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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  • Ricardo C. Cury, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge Street Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Department of Radiology, Baptist (Miami) Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami, FL, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 1 October 2008 ,Accepted 15 December 2008.

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 Conflict of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

 This study was partly supported by Pfizer, Inc, New York, NY.

PII: S1934-5925(08)00717-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2008.12.005

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 24-31 , January 2009

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