American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 104, Issue 3 , Pages 318-326 , 1 August 2009

Comparison of Dual-Energy Computed Tomography of the Heart With Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography for Assessment of Coronary Artery Stenosis and of the Myocardial Blood Supply

  • Balazs Ruzsics, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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  • Florian Schwarz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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  • U. Joseph Schoepf, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Tel: (843) 876-7146; fax: (843) 876-3157
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  • Yeong Shyan Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
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  • Gorka Bastarrika, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
    • Department of Radiology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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  • Salvatore A. Chiaramida, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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  • Philip Costello, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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  • Peter L. Zwerner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

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 Dr. Schoepf is a medical consultant for Bayer-Schering, Wayne, New Jersey, Bracco, Princeton, New Jersey, General Electric, Princeton, New Jersey, Medrad, Indianola, Pennsylvania, Siemens, Malvern, Pennsylvania, and TeraRecon, San Mateo, California and receives research support from Bayer-Schering, Bracco, General Electric, Medrad, and Siemens; Dr. Costello is a medical consultant for Bracco and receives research support from Siemens; and Dr. Zwerner receives research support from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squib, Bracco, and Siemens.

 This work was supported in part by the Hounsfield Award of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT-MR).

PII: S0002-9149(09)00813-3

doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.03.051

American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 104, Issue 3 , Pages 318-326 , 1 August 2009

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