Prospectively ECG-triggered high-pitch coronary angiography with third-generation dual-source CT at 70 kVp tube voltage: Feasibility, image quality, radiation dose, and effect of iterative reconstruction

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 418-425

  Hell, Michaela M ^a   Bittner, Daniel ^a   Schuhbaeck, Annika ^a   Muschiol, Gerd ^a   Brand, Michael ^a   Lell, Michael ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a   Marwan, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual source CT; High pitch spiral acquisition; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction; Ultra low dose coronary CT angiography

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; IOMEPROL; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; AGED; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84922360900     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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