Cardiac spiral dual-source CT with high pitch: A feasibility study

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2357-2362

  Ertel, Dirk ^a   Lell, Michael M ^a   Harig, Frank ^a   Flohr, Thomas ^b   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Dose; Dual source CT; High pitch; Image quality

Indexed keywords

IMERON 350; IOMEPROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE;

ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 70349868350     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1503-6     Document Type: Article

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