Evaluation of image quality and radiation dose at prospective ECG-triggered axial 256-slice multi-detector CT in infants with congenital heart disease

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 858-866

  Huang, Mei Ping ^a   Liang, Chang Hong ^a   Zhao, Zhen Jun ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Li, Jing Lei ^a   Zhang, Jin E ^a   Cui, Yan Hai ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Liu, Qi Shun ^a   Ivanc, Thomas B ^b   Vembar, Mani ^b  

^a GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Image quality; Multi detector CT; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ACCURACY; AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTOPULMONARY SEPTAL DEFECT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR RING; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IOHEXOL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960015132     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-011-2079-2     Document Type: Article

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