Is body weight the most appropriate criterion to select patients eligible for low-dose pulmonary CT angiography? Analysis of objective and subjective image quality at 80 kVp in 100 patients

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1914-1922

  Szucs Farkas, Zsolt ^a   Strautz, Tamara ^a   Patak, Michael A ^a   Kurmann, Luzia ^a   Vock, Peter ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Image quality; Pulmonary CT angiography; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

IOBITRIDOL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BODY BURDEN; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650790313     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1385-7     Document Type: Article

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