The influence of chest wall tissue composition in determining image noise during cardiac CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1328-1334

  Paul, Narinder S ^a   Kashani, Hany ^a   Odedra, Devang ^a   Ursani, Ali ^b   Ray, Chris ^a   Rogalla, Patrik ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Image noise; Image optimization; Obesity; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIAC CT; CHEST WALL BONE; CHEST WALL COMPOSITION; CHEST WALL FAT; CHEST WALL FAT TO MUSCLE RATIO; CHEST WALL MUSCLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CT CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM ASSESSMENT; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; GENDER; HOUNSFIELD UNIT; HUMAN; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TO SKIN ANTERIOR POSTERIOR DIAMETER; SKIN TO SKIN LATERAL THORACIC DIAMETER; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX WALL; TOTAL CHEST WALL SOFT TISSUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC WALL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82455194984     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6816     Document Type: Article

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