Development of a congenital cardiovascular computed tomography imaging registry: Rationale and implementation
The cumulative exposure and risk of anesthesia, vascular access, contrast agents and radiation is emerging as a significant lifelong burden in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Latest generation computerized tomographic (CT) scanners are increasingly used for high resolution cardiovascular imaging and have both hardware and post processing radiation dose reduction strategies that can be implemented. Currently, these dose reduction strategies are not uniformly applied and there is a large variability in radiation dose used for the performance of CT in CHD.
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography - Category: Radiology Authors: B. Kelly Han, Susan Casey, Dawn Witt, Jonathon Leipsic, Andrew Crean, Edward Nicol, Thomas Semple, James Shambrook, Ashwin Prakash, Puja Banka, Ross Garberich, Cynthia Rigsby, Anthony Hlavacek, John Lesser Tags: Research paper Source Type: research
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