Usefulness of Additional Coronary Calcium Scoring in Low-dose CT Coronary Angiography with Prospective ECG-Triggering. Impact on Total Effective Radiation Dose and Diagnostic Accuracy

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-206

  Husmann, Lars ^a   Herzog, Bernhard A ^a   Burger, Irene A ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Pazhenkottil, Aju P ^a   von Schulthess, Patrick ^a   Wyss, Christophe A ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Landmesser, Ulf ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

computed tomography coronary angiography; coronary calcium scoring; diagnostic accuracy; effective radiation dose; Prospective ECG triggering

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73049107330     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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