Radiation dose at coronary CT angiography: Second-generation dual-source CT versus single-source 64-MDCT and first-generation dual-source CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Fink, Christian ^a,b   Krissak, Radko ^b   Henzler, Thomas ^b   Lechel, Ursula ^c   Brix, Gunnar ^c   Takx, Richard A P ^a   Nance, John W ^a   Abro, Joseph A ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; CT; Phantom study; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEART DISEASE; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959591690     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5153     Document Type: Article

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