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Use of multidetector computed tomography for the assessment of acute chest pain: a consensus statement of the North American Society of Cardiac Imaging and the European Society of Cardiac Radiology

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  1. Department of Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Arthur E. Stillman

  2. Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Matthijs Oudkerk

  3. Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Margaret Ackerman

  4. Department of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilan University, Munich, Germany

    Christoph R. Becker

  5. Department of Cardiology, Upper Silesian Heart Center, Silesia, Poland

    Pawel E. Buszman

  6. Thoraxcenter, Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Pim J. de Feyter

  7. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Udo Hoffmann

  8. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Udo Hoffmann

  9. Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Matthew T. Keadey

  10. Department of Clinical Sciences and Bioimaging, Section of Radiology, G. d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy

    Riccardo Marano

  11. Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Martin J. Lipton

  12. Department of Cardiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA

    Gilbert L. Raff

  13. Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Gautham P. Reddy

  14. Department of Clinical Radiology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK

    Michael R. Rees

  15. Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Geoffrey D. Rubin & Lewis Wexler

  16. Department of Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

    U. Joseph Schoepf

  17. Department of Radiology, Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto, Canada

    Giuseppe Tarulli

  18. Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Edwin J. R. van Beek

  19. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Charles S. White

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Stillman, A.E., Oudkerk, M., Ackerman, M. et al. Use of multidetector computed tomography for the assessment of acute chest pain: a consensus statement of the North American Society of Cardiac Imaging and the European Society of Cardiac Radiology. Eur Radiol 17, 2196–2207 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-007-0677-z

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