Low-dose, 128-slice, dual-source CT coronary angiography: Accuracy and radiation dose of the high-pitch and the step-and-shoot mode

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 933-938

  Alkadhi, Hatem ^a,b   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Desbiolles, Lotus ^a   Baumueller, Stephan ^a   Goetti, Robert ^a   Plass, Andre ^a   Scheffel, Hans ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953702967     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.189100     Document Type: Article

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