Individualized assessment of radiation dose in patients undergoing coronary computed tomographic angiography with 256-slice scanning

Circulation

Volumn 122, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 2394-2402

  Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Seimenis, Ioannis ^b   Tzedakis, Antonis ^c   Papadakis, Antonios E ^c   Damilakis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Medical Diagnostic Center Ayios Therissos   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

cancer risk; coronary angiography; diagnostic imaging; radiation dosage; tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650686431     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.935346     Document Type: Article

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