Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 49-54 , January 2010

Axial area and anteroposterior diameter as estimates of left atrial size using computed tomography of the chest: Comparison with 3-dimensional volume

  • Amir A. Mahabadi, BS

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Quynh A. Truong, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Christopher L. Schlett, BS

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Bharat Samy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Christopher J. O'Donnell, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    • Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, USA
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  • Caroline S. Fox, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, MA, USA
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  • Fabian Bamberg, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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  • Udo Hoffmann, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA

Received 28 May 2009 ,Accepted 24 October 2009.

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

 This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study (N01-HC-25195) and by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (R01 HL080053). A.A.M. is supported by a grant from the German National Academic Foundation. Q.A.T. has received support from NIH (T32HL076136 and L30HL093896). C.L.S. is supported by grants from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and Foundation of German Business, Berlin.

PII: S1934-5925(09)00523-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2009.10.013

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 49-54 , January 2010

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