Vascular enhancement and image quality of MDCT pulmonary angiography in 400 cases: Comparison of standard and low kilovoltage settings

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1651-1656

  Matsuoka, Shin ^a   Hunsaker, Andetta R ^a   Gill, Ritu R ^a   Oliva, Isabel B ^a   Trotman Dickenson, Beatrice ^a   Jacobson, Francine L ^a   Hatabu, Hiroto ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Lung; Pulmonary angiography; Pulmonary embolism; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ANGIOGRAPHY; BODY BURDEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67049110250     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1730     Document Type: Article

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