Accuracy of prospectively ECG-triggered very low-dose coronary dual-source CT angiography using iterative reconstruction for the detection of coronary artery stenosis: Comparison with invasive catheterization

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1238-1245

  Layritz, Christian ^a   Schmid, Jasmin ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^b   Ulzheimer, Stefan ^c   Wuest, Wolfgang ^a   May, Matthias ^a   Ropers, Dieter ^a   Klinghammer, Lutz ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a   Pflederer, Tobias ^a   Lell, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary CT angiography; Iterative reconstruction; Low dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL; IOPROMIDE;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84926037296     PISSN: 20472404     EISSN: 20472412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jeu113     Document Type: Article

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