Preserved diagnostic performance of dual-source CT coronary angiography with reduced radiation exposure and cancer risk

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-60

  Weustink, Annick C ^a   Mollet, Nico R ^a   Neefjes, Lisan A ^a   Van Straten, Marcel ^a   Neoh, Eurick ^a   Kyrzopoulos, Stamatis ^a   Meijboom, Bob Willem ^a   Van Mieghem, Carlos ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^a   De Feyter, Pim J ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY WITH OPTIMAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC PULSING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NETHERLANDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650083562     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2521082023     Document Type: Article

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