Coronary CT angiography of patients with a normal body mass index using 80 kVp versus 100 kVp: A prospective, multicenter, multivendor randomized trial

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  LaBounty, Troy M ^a   Leipsic, Jonathon ^b   Poulter, Rohan ^b   Wood, David ^b   Johnson, Mark ^b   Srichai, Monvadi B ^c   Cury, Ricardo C ^d   Heilbron, Brett ^b   Hague, Cameron ^b   Lin, Fay Y ^e   Taylor, Carolyn ^b   Mayo, John R ^b   Thakur, Yogesh ^b   Earls, James P ^f   Mancini, G B John ^b   Dunning, Allison ^a   Gomez, Millie J ^a   Min, James K ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BAPTIST CARDIAC AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f Fairfax Radiological Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Coronary CT angiography; Radiation dose; Tube voltage

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054899972     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6787     Document Type: Article

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