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

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Published in J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr on November 27, 2009

Authors

Amir A Mahabadi1, Quynh A Truong, Christopher L Schlett, Bharat Samy, Christopher J O'Donnell, Caroline S Fox, Fabian Bamberg, Udo Hoffmann

Author Affiliations

1: Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA. amir.mahabadi@stud.uni-due.de

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