Radiation dose reduction for coronary artery calcium scoring at 320-detector CT with adaptive iterative dose reduction 3D

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1045-1052

  Tatsugami, Fuminari ^a   Higaki, Toru ^a   Fukumoto, Wataru ^a   Kaichi, Yoko ^a   Fujioka, Chikako ^a   Kiguchi, Masao ^a   Yamamoto, Hideya ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

320 detector CT scanner; Coronary artery calcium; Dose reduction; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; HYDROXYAPATITE; METOPROLOL;

ADAPTIVE ITERATIVE DOSE REDUCTION; AGATSTON SCORE; ALGORITHM; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; THORAX PAIN; UNDERWEIGHT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DEVICES; IMAGING PHANTOM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84929957727     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-015-0637-7     Document Type: Article

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