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High-pitch, Dual-source Chest Computed Tomography Angiography Without Electrocardiographic Synchronization
- Source :
- Journal of Thoracic Imaging. 28:376-382
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2013.
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Abstract
- Purpose To evaluate the frequency and severity of cardiac motion artifacts on high-pitch, dual-source computed tomography angiograms of the chest. Materials and methods One hundred consecutive patients underwent a non-electrocardiogram-gated, dual-source chest computed tomography examination with high pitch and high temporal resolution. Results The mean (±SD) duration of data acquisition was 0.9 (±0.07) seconds and the mean (±SD) heart rate was 78.9 (±15.2) bpm. Cardiac motion artifacts were seen at the level of the pulmonary trunk in 2 patients (2%). Among the 7000 pulmonary arteries analyzed (5 central, 5 lobar, 20 segmental, and 40 subsegmental arteries/patient), pseudofilling defects were depicted at the level of 3 arteries (0.042%), always seen with the concurrent presence of a "double contour" appearance of the vessel walls. Twinkling star artifacts beyond the subsegmental level were seen within 76 segments (76/2000; 3.8% of the examined segments), most commonly in the lingula and left lower lobe. A total of 23 patients (23%) showed at least 1 category of motion artifacts, whereas 77 patients (77%) had motion-free imaging of the pulmonary arteries. Conclusions Routine scanning of patients with high pitch and high temporal resolution provides examinations devoid of detrimental cardiac motion artifacts.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Pulmonary Circulation
medicine.medical_specialty
Radiography
Pulmonary Artery
Coronary Angiography
Electrocardiography
Cardiac motion
Heart rate
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
medicine
High pitch
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Aged
Computed tomography angiography
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Heart
Middle Aged
Female
Radiography, Thoracic
Radiology
Tomography
Artifacts
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Twinkling
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08835993
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Thoracic Imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ce2d505843918828b60a8b8285ac6b2c