Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 901-909 , August 2007

Triage of Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease using Multislice Computed Tomography

  • Hans Hoffmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Charité, Humboldt University Medical School, Berlin, Germany
    • Department of Medicine I (Cardiology, Angiology, and Pulmology), Klinikum Brandenburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Hans-Peter Dübel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Charité, Humboldt University Medical School, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Horst Laube, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, German Heart Center, Berlin, Germany.
    • ,
  • Bernd Hamm, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Charité, Humboldt University Medical School, Berlin, Germany
    • ,
  • Marc Dewey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Charité, Humboldt University Medical School, Berlin, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: M.D.

Received 2 April 2007 ,Accepted 6 May 2007.

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PII: S1076-6332(07)00249-8

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.05.005

Academic Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 8 , Pages 901-909 , August 2007

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