High-pitch electrocardiogram-triggered computed tomography of the chest

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 728-733

  Lell, Michael ^a   Hinkmann, Fabian ^a   Anders, Katharina ^a   Deak, Paul ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Aortic dissection; Computed tomography; Coronary CT; Dual source CT; Pulmonary embolism; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RR INTERVAL; THORAX PAIN; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 73949094933     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181b9df7e     Document Type: Article

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