Prospective ECG-Triggered Coronary CT Angiography: Clinical Value of Noise-Based Tube Current Reduction Method with Iterative Reconstruction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Shen, Junlin ^a   Du, Xiangying ^a   Guo, Daode ^a   Cao, Lizhen ^a   Gao, Yan ^a   Yang, Qi ^a   Li, Pengyu ^a   Liu, Jiabin ^a   Li, Kuncheng ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878614280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065025     Document Type: Article

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