Accuracy of coronary CT angiography using a submillisievert fraction of radiation exposure: Comparison with invasive coronary angiography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 772-780

  Stehli, Julia ^a   Fuchs, Tobias A ^a   Bull, Sacha ^a   Clerc, Olivier F ^a   Possner, Mathias ^a   Buechel, Ronny R ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

computed tomography; coronary CT angiography; iterative reconstruction; low radiation exposure; submillisievert

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENERGY YIELD; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; SUBMILLISIEVERT FRACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW RADIATION EXPOSURE; SUBMILLISIEVERT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84907952870     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.04.079     Document Type: Article

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