Impact on image quality and radiation exposure in coronary CT angiography: 100 kVp versus 120 kVp

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 903-909

  Ripsweden, Jonaz ^a,b   Brismar, Torkel B ^a,b   Holm, Jon ^a,b   Melinder, Annika ^b   Mir Akbari, Habib ^b   Nilsson, Tage ^a   Nyman, Ulf ^c   Rasmussen, Elsbeth ^d   Rück, Andreas ^b   Cederlund, Kerstin ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Capio Diagnostic Capio S:t Gran Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Angiography; Contrast to noise ratio; Coronary arteries; Heart; Radiation dose; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CT ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES; DOSE-LENGTH PRODUCTS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; GOLD STANDARDS; IMAGE NOISE; MEAN DENSITY; MEAN VALUES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION-INDUCED CANCER; SCANNING PARAMETERS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STENOSES; SUBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; VOLUME CT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY TUBES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956520348     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02841851.2010.504740     Document Type: Article

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