Radiation exposure in cardiac computed tomography imaging in Mie prefecture in 2021.

Suguru ArakiKakuya KitagawaTakanori KokawaMasafumi TakafujiSatoshi NakamuraNaoki NagasawaHajime Sakuma

Published in: Japanese journal of radiology (2023)

As of 2021, low tube potential and prospective scanning are underutilized, whereas iterative reconstruction is used in every coronary CTA in Mie Prefecture. Further efforts to optimize the radiation exposure from cardiac CT scans are necessary.

Keyphrases

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