High-pitch dual-source CT angiography of the thoracic and abdominal aorta: Is Simultaneous coronary artery assessment possible?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 938-944

  Goetti, Robert ^a   Baumüller, Stephan ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Karlo, Christoph ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a,b   Leschka, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Coronary arteries; Dual source CT; High pitch; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE; ARTIFACTS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77950604781     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3482     Document Type: Article

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