Low radiation dose non-contrast cardiac CT: Is it of value in the evaluation of mechanical aortic valve

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 389-393

  Bazeed, Mohamed Fayez ^a   Moselhy, Mohamed Saleh ^b   Rezk, Ahmad Ibrahim ^c   Al Murayeh, Mushabab Ayedh ^d  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Suez Canal University Faculty of Medicine   (Egypt)

^c AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Armed Forces Hospitals Southern Region ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cardiac; CT; Valves

Indexed keywords

AORTIC VALVES; BILEAFLET; CARDIAC; CARDIAC CT; CT; GRADING SCALE; HIGH-PRESSURE GRADIENT; MECHANICAL VALVES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; SCAN RANGE; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STRONG CORRELATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIES; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVE CLOSURE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RATING; VISUALIZATION;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860607088     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2012.110253     Document Type: Article

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