Evaluation of Attenuation-Based Tube Current Control in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring on Prospective ECG-triggered 64-detector CT

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1231-1240

  Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Matsuura, Noriaki ^b   Yamamoto, Hideya ^c   Kitagawa, Toshiro ^c   Sato, Kenichi ^d   Kihara, Yasuki ^c   Ito, Katsuhide ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

attenuation; calcium; Coronary artery; tube current; variability

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGE; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; IMAGE NOISE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; TUBE CURRENT; TUBE FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69649098260     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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