Evaluation of automated attenuation-based tube current adaptation for coronary calcium scoring in MDCT in a cohort of 262 patients

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1850-1857

  Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Hohl, Christian ^a   Das, Marco ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a   Suess, Christoph ^b   Klotz, Ernst ^b   Flohr, Thomas ^b   Koos, Ralf ^a   Thomas, Christoph ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Coronary calcium scoring; Dose reduction; Multi detector row computed tomography (MDCT); Tube current modulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; BODY MASS INDEX; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34250335638     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0543-4     Document Type: Article

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