Impact of heart rate frequency and variability on radiation exposure, image quality, and diagnostic performance in dual-source spiral CT coronary angiography

Radiology

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 672-680

  Weustink, Annick C ^a   Neefjes, Lisanne A ^a   Kyrzopoulos, Stamatis ^a   Van Straten, Marcel ^a   Eu, Rick Neoh ^a   Meijboom, Willem B ^a   Van Mieghem, Carlos A ^a   Capuano, Ermanno ^a   Dijkshoorn, Marcel L ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^a   Boersma, Eric ^a   De Feyter, Pim J ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Mollet, Nico R ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; IOPROMIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE BIGEMINY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 73949117790     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2533090358     Document Type: Article

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