Dose reduction in computed tomographic angiography of pregnant patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 961-966

  Litmanovich, Diana ^a   Boiselle, Phillip M ^a   Bankier, Alexander A ^a   Kataoka, Milliam L ^a   Pianykh, Oleg ^a   Raptopoulos, Vassilios ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; Multidetector CT pulmonary angiography; Pregnancy; Radiation dose; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSTETRICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHIES; DOSE-LENGTH PRODUCTS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; MULTI-DETECTORS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; STANDARD PROTOCOLS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANK SUM TEST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IODOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IOVERSOL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 73949158348     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e318198cd18     Document Type: Article

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