The Agatston calcium score: A milestone in the history of cardiac CT.
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2014 Nov-Dec;8(6):414-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2014.09.008. Epub 2014 Sep 28.
Schmermund A1.
Because of the increasingly widespread use of cardiac CT imaging, the Agatston calcium score has received great scientific and clinical interest. It was the first approach to quantifying coronary artery calcium. The Agatston score was created in 1990, and entering a respective search in “PubMed” yields 2620 scientific articles, with the number of published articles increasing year by year up to today.1 The score was named after Dr Arthur Agatston, who continues to practice cardiology in Miami Beach, Florida.