Abdominal aortic intimal flap motion characterization in acute aortic dissection: assessed with retrospective ECG-gated thoracoabdominal aorta dual-source CT angiography.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the feasibility of dose-modulated retrospective ECG-gated thoracoabdominal aorta CT angiography (CTA) assessing abdominal aortic intimal flap motion and investigate the motion characteristics of intimal flap in acute aortic dissection (AAD). MATERIALS AND METHODS: 49 patients...

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Main Authors: Shifeng Yang, Xia Li, Baoting Chao, Lebin Wu, Zhaoping Cheng, Yanhua Duan, Dawei Wu, Yiqiang Zhan, Jiuhong Chen, Bo Liu, Xiaopeng Ji, Pei Nie, Ximing Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3913653?pdf=render