Feasibility and radiation dose of high-pitch acquisition protocols in patients undergoing dual-source cardiac CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1306-1312

  Sommer, Wieland H ^a   Albrecht, Edda ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^a   Schenzle, Jan C ^a   Johnson, Thorsten R ^a   Neumaier, Klement ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Nikolaou, Konstatin ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; Coronary artery disease; Fast acquisition; Phantom study; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALDERSON RANDO PHANTOM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HIGH PITCH ACQUISITION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS RHYTHM; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649755609     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4416     Document Type: Article

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