CT evaluation of coronary artery stents with iterative image reconstruction: Improvements in image quality and potential for radiation dose reduction

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-132

  Ebersberger, Ullrich ^a,b   Tricarico, Francesco ^c   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a,h   Blanke, Philipp ^a,d   Spears, J Reid ^a   Rowe, Garrett W ^a   Halligan, William T ^a   Henzler, Thomas ^a,e   Bamberg, Fabian ^f   Leber, Alexander W ^g   Hoffmann, Ellen ^b   Apfaltrer, Paul ^a,e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Heart Center Munich Bogenhausen   (Germany)

^c FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery stents; Coronary CT angiography; Dual source CT; Iterative reconstruction; SAFIRE

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SMOKING;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871322405     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2580-5     Document Type: Article

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