Achieving consistent image quality and overall radiation dose reduction for coronary CT angiography with body mass index-dependent tube voltage and tube current selection

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 945-951

  Wang, G ^a   Gao, J ^a   Zhao, S ^a   Sun, X ^a   Chen, X ^a   Cui, X ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL OF CHINESE PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE FORCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84905111171     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2014.04.016     Document Type: Article

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