Comparison of Radiation Doses From Multislice Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography and Conventional Diagnostic Angiography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1840-1845

  Coles, Duncan R ^a   Smail, Mary A ^a   Negus, Ian S ^a   Wilde, Peter ^a   Oberhoff, Martin ^a   Karsch, Karl R ^a   Baumbach, Andreas ^a  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646201890     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.11.078     Document Type: Article

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