Prospective ECG-triggered CT angiography of the thoracic aorta in patients with atrial fibrillation or accelerated heart rates: Feasibility and image quality

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Blanke, Philipp ^a   Baumann, Tobias ^a   Bulla, Stefan ^a   Schaefer, Oliver ^a   Kotter, Elmar ^a   Langer, Mathias ^a   Pachek, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; CT angiography; Dual source CT; Step and shoot; Thoracic aorta

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TACHYCARDIA; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74749102098     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3153     Document Type: Article

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