Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 80-87 , March 2009

Quantitative assessment of left atrial volume by electrocardiographic-gated contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography

Received 18 August 2008 ,Accepted 10 February 2009.

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

 This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01 HL080053), by a grant of the German National Academic Foundation (A.A. Mahabadi), by the National Institutes of Health (T32HL076136 and L30HL093896 to Dr Truong), and by The National Heart Foundation of New Zealand (grant 1152 to Dr Seneviratne).

PII: S1934-5925(09)00078-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2009.02.002

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 80-87 , March 2009

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