Quantitative feasibility of aortic-valve agatston score derived from 5 ​mm-thick non-electrocardiography-gated noncontrast body computed tomography for evaluating severe aortic stenosis

The aortic-valve Agatston score (AVAS) is valuable for evaluating severe aortic stenosis (AS). While visual assessment of AS using chest computed tomography (CT) during lung cancer screening facilitates qualitative evaluation, it remains unclear whether AVAS derived from body CT that are neither electrocardiography (ECG)-triggered nor ECG-gated can quantitatively evaluate severe AS. This study aims to investigate the quantitative feasibility of AVAS derived from the 5 ​mm-thick noncontrast body …

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