Stent evaluation in low-dose coronary CT angiography: Effect of different iterative reconstruction settings

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 319-325

  Wuest, Wolfgang ^a   May, Matthias S ^a   Scharf, Michael ^a   Layritz, Christian ^a   Eisentopf, Jasmin ^a   Ropers, Dieter ^a   Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a   Lell, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Coronary stents; Iterative reconstruction; Low dose; SAFIRE

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; IOPROMIDE; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; METAL IMPLANTATION; NOISE REDUCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CARDIAC CT; CORONARY STENTS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW DOSE; SAFIRE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84888021365     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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