Low-dose triple-rule-out using 320-row-detector volume MDCT - Less contrast medium and lower radiation exposure

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1416-1423

  Durmus, Tahir ^a   Rogalla, Patrik ^b   Lembcke, Alexander ^a   Mühler, Matthias R ^a   Hamm, Bernd ^a   Hein, Patrick A ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

320 row detector CT; Chest pain; Contrast medium volume; Low dose; Triple rule out

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TECHNIQUE; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX PAIN;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHEST PAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959380405     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2088-4     Document Type: Article

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