Reproducibility of two coronary calcium quantification algorithms in patients with different degrees of calcification.

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Published in Int J Cardiovasc Imaging on April 01, 2001

Authors

S Möhlenkamp1, T R Behrenbeck, H Pump, P Kriener, S Lange, D Baumgart, R M Seibel, D H Grönemeyer, R Erbel

Author Affiliations

1: The Department of Cardiology, University of Essen, Germany. stefan.moehlenkamp@uni-essen.de

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