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    Evaluation of the proximal coronary arteries in suspected pulmonary embolism: diagnostic images in 51% of patients using non-gated, dual-source CT pulmonary angiography

    This retrospective study reports the frequency and severity of coronary artery motion on dual-source high-pitch (DSHP), conventional pitch single-source (SS), and dual-source dual-energy (DE) CT pulmonary angi...

    David M. Thomas, Patrick D. McLaughlin, James P. Nugent in Emergency Radiology (2019)

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    Dose-Lowering Strategies in Computed Tomography Imaging of the Lung and Heart

    Since its first introduction by Hounsfield and Cormack in 1972, computed tomography (CT) has become one of the most important imaging modalities in diagnostic imaging, because of its strong impact on patient o...

    André Euler, Zsolt Szucs-Farkas, John R. Mayo in Diseases of the Chest and Heart 2015–2018 (2015)

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    Strategies for Radiation Dose Optimization

    This article reviews strategies for radiation dose optimization for computed tomography (CT). A brief overview of dose metrics including computed tomographic dose index, dose length product and effective dose ...

    Yogesh Thakur, Patrick D. McLaughlin, John R. Mayo in Current Radiology Reports (2013)

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    Quantification of lung surface area using computed tomography

    To refine the CT prediction of emphysema by comparing histology and CT for specific regions of lung. To incorporate both regional lung density measured by CT and cluster analysis of low attenuation areas for c...

    Ren Yuan, Taishi Nagao, Peter D Paré, James C Hogg, Don D Sin in Respiratory Research (2010)

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    Optimization of Dose and Image Quality for Computed Radiography and Digital Radiography

    The surface doses to patients during chest, abdomen and pelvis radiography were measured over a period of 3 years, during which time computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems were introduc...

    John E. Aldrich, Emerenciana Duran, Pat Dunlop, John R. Mayo in Journal of Digital Imaging (2006)

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    Pulmonary Oedema following Exercise in Humans

    Pulmonary physiologists have documented many transient changes in the lung and the respiratory system during and following exercise, including the incomplete oxygen saturation of arterial blood in some subject...

    Alastair N. H. Hodges, John R. Mayo, Donald C. McKenzie in Sports Medicine (2006)

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    Transfemoral liver biopsy by forceps: A review of 104 consecutive procedures

    Transvenous liver biopsy is performed on patients with contraindications to percutaneous biopsy. Transfemoral liver biopsy has not been widely reported, and we present our experience of 104 consecutive procedu...

    Julian P. Teare, Anthony F. Watkinson in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (1994)