Image quality and radiation dose stratified by patient heart rate for coronary 64- and 320-MDCT angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 765-770

  Fujimoto, Shinichiro ^a   Matsutani, Hideyuki ^a   Kondo, Takeshi ^a   Sano, Tomonari ^a   Kumamaru, Kanako ^b   Takase, Shinichi ^a   Rybicki, Frank J ^b  

^a Takase Clinic   (Japan)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Coronary imaging; CT; Image quality; Radiation dose; Wide area detector CT

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; IOHEXOL; IOPAMIDOL; PROPRANOLOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878257004     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.9037     Document Type: Article

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