Radiation dose and image quality at high-pitch CT angiography of the aorta: Intraindividual and interindividual comparisons with conventional CT angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1402-1409

  Apfaltrer, Paul ^a,b   Hanna, E Lexworth ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Spears, J Reid ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^b   Fink, Christian ^b   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aorta; CT angiography; High pitch CT angiography; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSE LENGTH PRODUCT; FEMALE; FIGURE OF MERIT; HIGH PITCH COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL ATTENUATION; MEAN VOLUME COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DOSE INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUBE CURRENT EXPOSURE TIME PRODUCT; TUBE VOLTAGE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870861055     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.8652     Document Type: Article

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