Radiation dose from single-heartbeat coronary CT angiography performed with a 320-detector row volume scanner

Radiology

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 698-706

  Einstein, Andrew J ^a   Elliston, Carl D ^a   Arai, Andrew E ^b   Chen, Marcus Y ^b   Mather, Richard ^c   Pearson, Gregory D N ^a   Delapaz, Robert L ^a   Nickoloff, Edward ^a   Dutta, Ajoy ^a   Brenner, David J ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Toshiba American Medical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BODY BURDEN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950143210     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09090779     Document Type: Article

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