Direct chest area measurement: A potential anthropometric replacement for BMI to inform cardiac CT dose parameters?

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 240-246

  Ghoshhajra, Brian B ^a   Engel, Leif Christopher ^a   Major, Gyöngyi Petra ^a   Verdini, Dan ^a   Sidhu, Manavjot ^a   Károlyi, Mihály ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^a   Hoffmann, Udo ^a   Kalra, Manudeep ^a   Brady, Thomas J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT angiography; Contrast to noise ratio; Image quality; Linear regression; Radiation dose; Second generation dual source CT; Tube voltage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; BODY MASS INDEX; BOSTON; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 80055067056     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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