Optimal electrocardiographic pulsing windows and heart rate: Effect on image quality and radiation exposure at dual-source coronary CT angiography

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 792-798

  Weustink, Annick C ^a   Mollet, Nico R ^a   Pugliese, Francesca ^a   Meijboom, Willem B ^a   Nieman, Koen ^a   Heijenbrok Kal, Majanka H ^a   Flohr, Thomas G ^b   Neefjes, Lisanne A E ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^a   De Feyter, Pim J ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SYSTOLE; AGED; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51549106753     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2483072098     Document Type: Article

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