Coronary image quality of 320-MDCT in patients with heart rates above 65 beats per minute: Preliminary experience

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Allan B ^a   Nandurkar, Dee ^a   Schneider Kolsky, Michal E ^b   Crossett, Marcus ^a,b   Seneviratne, Sujith K ^b   Cameron, James D ^b   Troupis, John M ^a,b  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

320 MDCT; Cardiac CT; Heart rate above 65 beats min

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960482841     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5252     Document Type: Article

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