Radiation dose of cardiac computed tomography - what has been achieved and what needs to be done - Publikation

Publikation

Radiation dose of cardiac computed tomography - what has been achieved and what needs to be done

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 19.10.2010

Alkadhi Hatem, Leschka Sebastian

Zitation

Alkadhi H, Leschka S. Radiation dose of cardiac computed tomography - what has been achieved and what needs to be done. Eur Radiol 2010

Art

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)

Zeitschrift

Eur Radiol 2010

Veröffentlichungsdatum

19.10.2010

eISSN (Online)

1432-1084

Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

This review highlights the recently introduced techniques by manufacturers and various research workers to reduce radiation dose in coronary CT. It discusses in detail the development of ECG-based tube current modulation, the application of low tube voltage protocols and prospective ECG-gating. It also briefly discusses two further methods of dose reduction, namely minimisation of the x-y anatomical coverage and adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction.