Submillisievert Median Radiation Dose for Coronary Angiography with a Second-Generation 320–Detector Row CT Scanner in 107 Consecutive Patients

• Published in: Radiology Vol. 267; no. 1; pp. 76 - 85
• Main Authors: Chen, Marcus Y., Shanbhag, Sujata M., Arai, Andrew E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Radiological Society of North America, Inc 01.04.2013
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Body Mass Index; Cardiac-Gated Imaging Techniques; Chi-Square Distribution; Coronary Angiography - instrumentation; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Original Research; Prospective Studies; Radiation Dosage; Radiometry - methods; Statistics, Nonparametric; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - instrumentation

To (a) use a new second-generation wide-volume 320-detector row computed tomographic (CT) scanner to explore optimization of radiation exposure in coronary CT angiography in an unselected and consecutive cohort of patients referred for clinical purposes and (b) compare estimated radiation exposure a...