Image quality, contrast enhancement, and radiation dose of ecg-triggered high-pitch CT versus non-ECG-triggered standard-pitch CT of the thoracoabdominal aorta

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 931-938

  Bolen, Michael A ^a   Popovic, Zoran B ^a   Tandon, Navdeep ^b   Flamm, Scott D ^a   Schoenhagen, Paul ^a   Halliburton, Sandra S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; CT angiography; High pitch

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM TRIGGERED HIGH PITCH HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ELECTROCARDIOGRAM TRIGGERED STANDARD PITCH HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACOABDOMINAL AORTA; VISIBILITY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC DISEASES; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84859132922     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6921     Document Type: Article

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