Adult Congenital Heart Disease Imaging with Second-generation Dual-source Computed Tomography: Initial Experiences and Findings

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 516-525

  Ghoshhajra, Brian B ^a   Sidhu, Manavjot S ^a   El Sherief, Ahmed ^a   Rojas, Carlos ^a   Yeh, Doreen Defaria ^a   Engel, Leif Christopher ^a   Liberthson, Richard ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^a   Bhatt, Ami ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult congenital heart disease; Cardiac computed tomography; Dual source

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA SUPRAVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG SHUNT; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LEVOCARDIA; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTRUM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870377163     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chd.12008     Document Type: Article

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