Closing in on the K edge: Coronary CT angiography at 100, 80, and 70 kV-initial comparison of a second- versus a third-generation dual-source CT system

Radiology

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 373-382

  Meyer, Mathias ^a   Haubenreisser, Holger ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^b   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^c   Leidecker, Christianne ^d   Allmendinger, Thomas ^d   Lehmann, Ralf ^a   Sudarski, Sonja ^a   Borggrefe, Martin ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^a   Henzler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMED CONSENT; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SECOND GENERATION DUAL SOURCE CT SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THIRD GENERATION DUAL SOURCE CT SYSTEM; AGED; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC USE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84910059846     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14140244     Document Type: Article

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