State of the art low-dose CT angiography of the body

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-40

  Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography; Contrast to noise ratio; Dual energy CTA; Low dose CTA

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052721809     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.12.099     Document Type: Review

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