Cardiovascular computed tomography angiography in newborns and infants with suspected congenital heart disease: Retrospective evaluation of low-dose scan protocols

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 746-753

  Klink, Thorsten ^a   Müller, Götz ^b   Weil, Jochen ^b   Dodge Khatami, Ali ^b   Adam, Gerhard ^a   Bley, Thorsten Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography angiography (CTA); Congenital heart disease; Low radiation dose; Newborns; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC CAPABILITIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGES; DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY; EFFECTIVE DOSE; LOW DOSE; NEWBORNS; RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; PEDIATRICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84869137529     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2012.01.043     Document Type: Article

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