Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 10 , Pages 1231-1240 , October 2009

Evaluation of Attenuation-Based Tube Current Control in Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring on Prospective ECG-triggered 64-detector CT

  • Jun Horiguchi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Radiology, Hiroshima University Hospital, 1-2-3, Kasumi-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: J.H..
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  • Noriaki Matsuura, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Japan
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  • Hideya Yamamoto, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences & Hiroshima University Hospital, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Japan
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  • Toshiro Kitagawa, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences & Hiroshima University Hospital, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Japan
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  • Kenichi Sato, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmetrics and Biometrics, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Japan
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  • Yasuki Kihara, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences & Hiroshima University Hospital, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Japan
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  • Katsuhide Ito, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Minami-ku, Japan

Received 25 March 2009 ,Accepted 9 April 2009.

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 This study was financially supported by the Tsuchiya Foundation (Hiroshima, Japan)

PII: S1076-6332(09)00262-1

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.04.008

Academic Radiology
Volume 16, Issue 10 , Pages 1231-1240 , October 2009

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