Comparison of image quality and radiation dose of different pulmonary CTA protocols on a 128-slice CT: High-pitch dual source CT, dual energy CT and conventional spiral CT

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 279-286

  De Zordo, Tobias ^a   Von Lutterotti, Klemens ^a   Dejaco, Christian ^b   Soegner, Peter F ^a   Frank, Renate ^a   Aigner, Friedrich ^a   Klauser, Andrea S ^a   Pechlaner, Christoph ^c   Schoepf, U Joseph ^d   Jaschke, Werner R ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun M ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Dual energy; Dual source; Pulmonary embolism; Radiation

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAT TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856599481     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2251-y     Document Type: Article

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