Dual-source versus single-source cardiac CT angiography: Comparison of diagnostic image quality

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1051-1056

  Donnino, Robert ^a   Jacobs, Jill E ^a   Doshi, Jay V ^b   Hecht, Elizabeth M ^a   Kim, Danny C ^a   Babb, James S ^a   Srichai, Monvadi B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Coronary CT angiography; CT; Dual source CT; Image quality

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; IODIXANOL; IOPROMIDE; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63849281603     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1198     Document Type: Article

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