Radiation dose threshold for coronary artery calcium score with MDCT: How low can you go?

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2121-2129

  Newton, Tom D ^a,b   Mehrez, Hatem ^c   Wong, Kelly ^b,d   Menezes, Ravi ^e,f   Wintersperger, Bernd J ^b,g   Crean, Andrew ^b   Nguyen, Elsie ^b   Paul, Narinder ^b  

^a EAST LANCASHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d CREDIT VALLEY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e Departments of Medical Imaging   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcification; Cardiac gated imaging techniques; Computed tomography; Coronary artery disease; Radiation dosage

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053908766     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2159-6     Document Type: Article

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