Evaluation of image quality and radiation dose of thoracic and coronary dual-source CT in 110 infants with congenital heart disease

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 668-676

  Saad, Moez Ben ^a   Rohnean, Adela ^a   Sigal Cinqualbre, Anne ^a   Adler, Ghazal ^a   Paul, Jean Francois ^a  

^a Radiology Department   (France)

Author keywords

Children; Congenital; Dual source CT; Heart; Technique

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RADIATION DOSE; SEDATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BODY BURDEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; RADIOGRAPHY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BODY BURDEN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69149083246     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-009-1209-6     Document Type: Article

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