Timing on 16-slice scanner and implications for 64-slice cardiac CT: Do you start scanning immediately after breath hold?

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-176

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Shen, Yun ^b   Hirai, Nobuhiko ^a   Yamamoto, Hideya ^c   Akiyama, Yuji ^a   Ishifuro, Minoru ^a   Kakizawa, Hideaki ^c   Hieda, Masashi ^c   Tachikake, Toshihiro ^c   Matsuura, Noriaki ^c   Ito, Katsuhide ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Computed tomography (CT); Heart rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 31044431608     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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