Dual-step prospective ECG-triggered 128-slice dual-source ct for evaluation of coronary arteries and cardiac function without heart rate control: A technical note

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2092-2099

  Feuchtner, Gudrun ^a   Goetti, Robert ^a   Plass, Andrè ^a   Baumueller, Stephan ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Scheffel, Hans ^a   Wieser, Monika ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a,b   Leschka, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac function; Computed tomography; Coronary arteries; Prospective ECG triggering; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINUS RHYTHM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77957954638     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-010-1794-7     Document Type: Article

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