A comparison of radiation doses between state-of-the-art multislice CT coronary angiography with iterative reconstruction, multislice CT coronary angiography with standard filtered back-projection and invasive diagnostic coronary angiography

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 922-926

  Gosling, Oliver ^b   Loader, R ^a   Venables, P ^a   Roobottom, C ^a   Rowles, N ^a   Bellenger, N ^b   Morgan Hughes, G ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953710955     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.195909     Document Type: Article

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