Prospective and retrospective ECG-gating for CT coronary angiography perform similarly accurate at low heart rates

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-91

  Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Goetti, Robert ^a   Baumueller, Stephan ^a   Plass, André ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Scheffel, Hans ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a,b   Leschka, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Diagnostic performance; Dual source CT; Low heart rate; Prospectively ECG gated; Retrospectively ECG gated

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY WEIGHT; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958773436     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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