Combined use of automatic tube potential selection with tube current modulation and iterative reconstruction technique in coronary CT angiography

Radiology

Volumn 269, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 722-729

  Suh, Young Joo ^a   Kim, Young Jin ^a   Hong, Sae Rom ^a   Hong, Yoo Jin ^a   Lee, Hye Jeong ^a   Hur, Jin ^a   Choi, Byoung Wook ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC TUBE POTENTIAL SELECTION WITH TUBE CURRENT MODULATION; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84890096328     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13130408     Document Type: Article

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