Investigation of the Radiation Dose Reduction and Accuracy of Pulmonary Vein Isolation Using the Contrast-to-Noise Ratio based protocol in the Left Atrium Computed Tomography: Comparison of Noise Based Protocol

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Congress:

ECR 2017

Poster Number:

C-0853

Type:

Scientific Exhibit

Keywords:

Cardiac Assist Devices, Contrast agent-intravenous, Computer Applications-3D, Ablation procedures, Fluoroscopy, CT-Angiography, Pulmonary vessels, Cardiovascular system, Cardiac, Kv imaging

Authors:

Y. Matsumoto¹, N. Imada², T. Masuda¹, T. Oku¹, T. Sato¹; ¹Hiroshima/JP, ²Hiroshima /JP

DOI:

10.1594/ecr2017/C-0853

DOI-Link:

https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/ecr2017/C-0853

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