A hypertensive patient arriving at the ED with atypical chest pain. Helical Gated Chest CTA was conducted to rule out acute coronary syndrome and/or Aortic dissection. AiCE DLR demonstrates excellent visualization of detail in small vessels, enabled by its low-noise and high-resolution characteristics.
View Scan ParametersScan Mode | Helical |
Collimation | 0.5 mm x 80 |
kVp | 100 |
mAs | SUREExposure |
Rotation Time | 0.5 s |
Scan Range | 368.0 mm |
Dose Reduction | AiCE |
CTDIvol | 5.0 mGy |
DLP | 208.0 mGy·cm |
Effective Dose | 2.91 mSv |
k-factor | 0.014 (AAPM Report 96) |
Cardiac CTA with AiCE DLR demonstrating good visualization of lumen in the presence of calcified plaque, through low-noise and high-resolution characteristics.
View Scan ParametersScan Mode | Ultra-Helical |
Collimation | 0.5 mm x 80 |
kVp | 120 |
mAs | EC |
Rotation Time | 0.5 s |
Reconstruction | AiCE Cardiac |
CTDIvol | 7.2 mGy |
DLP | 140.8 mGy·cm |
Effective Dose | 0.6 mSv |
k-factor | 0.014 (AAPM Report 96) |
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