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Defining the mid-diastolic imaging period for cardiac CT – lessons from tissue Doppler echocardiography

BACKGROUND: Aggressive dose reduction strategies for cardiac CT require the prospective selection of limited cardiac phases. At lower heart rates, the period of mid-diastole is typically selected for image acquisition. We aimed to identify the effect of heart rate on the optimal CT acquisition phase...

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Autores principales: Otton, James M, Phan, Justin, Feneley, Michael, Yu, Chung-yao, Sammel, Neville, McCrohon, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3570333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23375107
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-13-5