Cardiac computed tomography and radiation: Balancing benefit and risk;Tomografia computorizada cardíaca e radiação - O balanço do benefício e do risco

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1677-1682

  Almeida, Ana G ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Coronary CT; Radiation; Risk

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

HEART; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79251506956     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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