Iterative reconstruction and individualized automatic tube current selection reduce radiation dose while maintaining image quality in 320-multidetector computed tomography coronary angiography

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Williams, M C ^a   Weir, N W ^b   Mirsadraee, S ^b   Millar, F ^a   Baird, A ^b   Minns, F ^b   Uren, N G ^c   McKillop, G ^c   Bull, R K ^d   Van Beek, E J R ^b   Reid, J H ^b   Newby, D E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METOPROLOL; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84885021379     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2013.05.098     Document Type: Article

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