Prospective ECG triggering reduces prosthetic heart valve-induced artefacts compared with retrospective ECG gating on 256-slice CT

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1271-1277

  Symersky, Petr ^a   Habets, Jesse ^b   Westers, Paul ^b   De Mol, Bas A J M ^a,c   Prokop, Mathias ^d   Budde, Ricardo P J ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Cardiac gated imaging techniques; Cardiovascular model; Computed tomography; Heart valve prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; DENSITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ARTIFACTS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861531307     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2358-1     Document Type: Article

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