Radiation dose values for various coronary calcium scoring protocols in dual-source CT

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 443-451

  Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^a   Betschart, Thomas ^a   Desbiolles, Lotus ^a   Flohr, Thomas G ^b   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary calcium scoring; Dual source computed tomography; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY CALCIUM SCORING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63449114742     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-008-9397-y     Document Type: Article

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