Radiation Dose and Image Quality of Prospective Triggering With Dual-Source Cardiac Computed Tomography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1168-1173

  Blankstein, Ron ^a,b   Shah, Amar ^a   Pale, Rodrigo ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^a   Bezerra, Hiram ^a   Bolen, Michael ^a   Mamuya, Wilfred S ^a   Hoffmann, Udo ^a   Brady, Thomas J ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^a,c  

^a Cardiac MR PET CT Program   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BAPTIST CARDIAC AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART RATE; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 64149120137     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.12.045     Document Type: Article

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