Variability of Repeated Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring and Radiation Dose on 64- and 16-Slice Computed Tomography by Prospective Electrocardiographically-triggered Axial and Retrospective Electrocardiographically-gated Spiral Computed Tomography. A Phantom Study

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 958-965

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Kiguchi, Masao ^a   Fujioka, Chikako ^a   Arie, Ryuichi ^a   Shen, Yun ^b   Sunasaka, Kenichi ^c   Kitagawa, Toshiro ^d   Yamamoto, Hideya ^d   Ito, Katsuhide ^e  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (China)

^c GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcium; Computed tomography; coronary artery; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 46649098355     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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