Radiation Dose Reduction in Coronary CT Angiography
Author(s) -
Andrew J. Einstein
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.02.021
Subject(s) - coronary angiography , medicine , ionizing radiation , angiography , radiology , interventional cardiology , radiation dose , nuclear medicine , radiation exposure , scanner , computed tomography , reduction (mathematics) , medical physics , cardiology , computer science , myocardial infarction , physics , irradiation , mathematics , artificial intelligence , nuclear physics , geometry
Since the inception of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA), minimizing ionizing radiation exposure has posed a clinical challenge. In a 1984 paper chronicling their pioneering work with the dynamic spatial reconstructor (DSR), the first scanner used for coronary CTA, Block, Bove, and
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