Coronary CT angiography with single-source and dual-source CT: comparison of image quality and radiation dose between prospective ECG-triggered and retrospective ECG-gated protocols

Sabarudin A 1 , Sun Z , Yusof AK

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  • 1 Discipline of Medical Imaging, Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia; Diagnostic Imaging & Radiotherapy Programme, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 50300 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Int J Cardiol, 2013 Sep 30;168(2):746-53.
PMID: 23098849 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.09.217

Abstract

This study is conducted to investigate and compare image quality and radiation dose between prospective ECG-triggered and retrospective ECG-gated coronary CT angiography (CCTA) with the use of single-source CT (SSCT) and dual-source CT (DSCT).

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