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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2016.10.4.285

Factor Analysis of Decreased Score on Coronary Artery Calcium Score  

Shim, Jae-Goo (Department of Radiologic Technology, Daegu Health College)
Kim, Yon-Min (Department of Radiotechnology, Wonkwang Health Science University)
Kim, Jin-Woo (Department of Health Promotion, Samsung Medical Center)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.10, no.4, 2016 , pp. 285-290 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the cause of a decreased calcium score of follow-up studies on coronary artery calcium scores (CACs) computed tomography (CT). The subjects were healthy 100 people(85 males $60.6{\pm}6.9$ years, 15 females $67.2{\pm}7.3$ years). The subjects decreased CACs were divided into 4 subgroups depending on Agatston classification, minimal (1-10), mild (11-100), moderate (101-400), severe (400<). As a result of decreased CACs were scan location disagreement 51%, motion artifact 26%, equipment changes 14%, operator mistakes 5%, input miss 2%, image loss 1%, arrhythmia 1%. In the mild group, the most common decreased CACs were 49 people. In the minimal group, the most significant variation reduction has occurred to 6 people. Scan location disagreement was considered a partial volume effects due to the scan starting position. It showed less than 100 CACs a high variation (19.7%) in more than 100 CACs, a lower variation (2.2%), these could be seen that the variation range is different that can be tolerated according to the calcification score. Motion artifact factor was found in 26%, which is so closely related to the preceding tests that affect the higher heart rate like this pulmonary function test, exercise stress test.
Keywords
Coronary artery CT; calcium score; Agatston;
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