Whole-chest 64-MDCT of emergency department patients with nonspecific chest pain: Radiation dose and coronary artery image quality with prospective ECG triggering versus retrospective ECG gating

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1662-1667

  Shuman, William P ^a   Branch, Kelley R ^a   May, Janet M ^a   Mitsumori, Lee M ^a   Strote, Jared N ^a   Warren, Bill H ^a   Dubinsky, Theodore J ^a   Lockhart, David W ^a   Caldwell, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Gating technique; Image quality; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX PAIN; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; GATED IMAGING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BODY BURDEN; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67049155324     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1872     Document Type: Article

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