Low-dose CT Coronary Angiography Using Prospective ECG-Triggering. Impact of Mean Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability on Image Quality

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-21

  Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Burkhard, Nina ^a   Valenta, Ines ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Tatsugami, Fuminari ^a   Wyss, Christophe A ^a   Landmesser, UIf ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CT coronary angiography; heart rate; heart rate variability; image quality; prospective ECG triggering

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; METOPROLOL TARTRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57049163569     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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