Diagnostic accuracy of pulmonary CT angiography at low tube voltage: Intraindividual comparison of a normal-dose protocol at 120 kVp and a low-dose protocol at 80 kVp using reduced amount of contrast medium in a simulation study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Szucs Farkas, Zsolt ^a,b   Schibler, Fabian ^a   Cullmann, Jennifer ^a   Torrente, Jaled Charimo ^a   Patak, Michael A ^a   Raible, Stephan ^c   Hoppe, Hanno ^a   Wyttenbach, Rolf ^d   Vock, Peter ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Radiology   (Switzerland)

^c BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^d Ospedale Regionale Bellinzona e Valli   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CT; Diagnostic accuracy; Low dose; Pulmonary angiography; Pulmonary embolism; Simulation study

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054960491     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6750     Document Type: Article

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