Image quality and radiation exposure with prospectively ECG-triggered axial scanning for coronary CT angiography: The multicenter, multivendor, randomized PROTECTION-III study

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 484-493

  Hausleiter, Jörg ^a   Meyer, Tanja S ^a   Martuscelli, Eugenio ^b   Spagnolo, Pietro ^c   Yamamoto, Hiroaki ^d   Carrascosa, Patricia ^e   Anger, Thomas ^f   Lehmkuhl, Lukas ^g   Alkadhi, Hatem ^h   Martinoff, Stefan ^a   Hadamitzky, Martin ^a   Hein, Franziska ^a   Bischoff, Bernhard ^a   Kuse, Miriam ^a   Schömig, Albert ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ⁱ  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Nagano Chuo Hospital   (Japan)

^e Department of Computed Tomography   (Argentina)

^f INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

angiography; computed tomography; imaging multislice; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ARGENTINA; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; JAPAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84861150020     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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