Comparison of Two Contemporary Quantitative Atherosclerotic Plaque Assessment Tools for Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography: Single-Center Analysis and Multi-Center Patient Cohort Validation.
Loris WeichselAlexander GiesenFlorian AndreMatthias RenkerStefan BaumannPhilipp BreitbartMeinrad BeerPal Maurovitch-HorvatBálint SzilveszterBorbála VattaySebastian J BussMohamed MarwanAndreas A GiannopoulosSebastian KelleNorbert FreyGrigorios KorosoglouPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)
The plaque analysis Tool #2 (CT-guided PCI) encompassing a higher degree of automated support required less manual editing, was more time-efficient, and showed a higher intra- and inter-observer reproducibility for the quantitative assessment of plaque volumes both in a representative single-center and in a multi-center validation cohort.