Prospective gating with 320-MDCT angiography: Effect of volume scan length on radiation dose

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 407-411

  Khan, Atif ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^b,c   Khosa, Faisal ^a   Saghir, Amina ^a   Sarwar, Sheryar ^a   Clouse, Melvin E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

320 MDCT; Cardiac imaging; Coronary artery disease; Radiation dose reduction; Volume scan length

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79251493004     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4903     Document Type: Article

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