Image quality in obese patients undergoing 256-row computed tomography coronary angiography

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 633-639

  Segev, Orit Lesman ^a,b   Gaspar, Tamar ^a,b   Halon, David A ^a,b   Peled, Nathan ^a,b   Domachevsky, Liran ^a,b   Lewis, Basil S ^a,b   Rubinshtein, Ronen ^a,b  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Image noise; Image quality; Multislice computed tomography; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861479252     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-011-9848-8     Document Type: Article

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