Research article

An alternative method for quantifying coronary artery calcification: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

C J Liang¹, Matthew J Budoff², Joel D Kaufman³, Richard A Kronmal¹ and Elizabeth R Brown^1,⁴^*

¹ Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

² Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA

³ Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Medicine, and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

⁴ Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Public Health Sciences Divisions, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

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BMC Medical Imaging 2012, 12:14 doi:10.1186/1471-2342-12-14

Published: 2 July 2012

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Appendix. For a description of the spatially weighted calcium score in further detail.

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