Feasibility of prospectively ECG-triggered high-pitch coronary CT angiography with 30 mL iodinated contrast agent at 70 kVp: Initial experience

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1537-1546

  Zhang, Long Jiang ^a   Qi, Li ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Tang, Chun Xiang ^a   Zhou, Chang Sheng ^a   Ji, Xue Man ^a   Spearman, James V ^b   De Cecco, Carlo Nicola ^b   Meinel, Felix G ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a,b   Lu, Guang Ming ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast agent; CT coronary angiography; High pitch acquisition; Low kilovoltage; Prospective ECG gating; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPROMIDE; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SINUS RHYTHM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84902363569     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3157-2     Document Type: Article

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