Radiation in cardiac CT: Predictors of higher dose and its reduction over time;Radiação na AngioTC cardíaca: Preditores de maior dose utilizada e sua redução ao longo do tempo

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1655-1665

  Sousa, Pedro Jerónimo ^a   Gonçalves, Pedro Araújo ^a   Marques, Hugo ^a   Raposo, Luís ^a   Calé, Rita ^a   Brito, João ^a   Gaspar, Augusto ^a   Machado, Francisco Pereira ^a   Roquette, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DA LUZ   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Radiation

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION DOSE;

AGED; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78751694684     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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