Comparison of sequential and helical scanning for radiation dose and image quality: Results of the Prospective Multicenter Study on Radiation Dose Estimates of Cardiac CT Angiography (PROTECTION) I Study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1495-1499

  Bischoff, Bernhard ^a   Hein, Franziska ^a   Meyer, Tanja ^a   Krebs, Markus ^a   Hadamitzky, Martin ^a   Martinoff, Stefan ^a   Schömig, Albert ^a   Hausleiter, Jörg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; CT; Prospective triggering; Sequential scanning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953257520     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3543     Document Type: Article

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