Comparison of radiation dose and image quality: 320-MDCT versus 64-MDCT coronary angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 163-168

  Khan, Atif ^a   Khosa, Faisal ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^b,c   Yassin, Aya ^a   Clouse, Melvin E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

320 MDCT; 64 MDCT; Coronary artery disease; Image quality; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960490116     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5250     Document Type: Article

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