High-Pitch Coronary CT Angiography at 70 KVp Adopting a Protocol of Low Injection Speed and Low Volume of Contrast Medium

Overview

Journal Korean J Radiol

Specialty Radiology

Date 2017 Sep 2

PMID 28860894

Citations 10

Authors

Ruiqi Feng

Jiajie Tong

Xiaofei Liu

Yu Zhao

Liang Zhang

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Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and image quality (IQ) of prospectively high-pitch coronary CT angiography (CCTA) with low contrast medium injection rate at 70 kVp.

Materials And Methods: One hundred and four patients with suspected coronary artery disease (body mass index < 26 kg/m, sinus rhythm and heart rate < 70 beats/min) were prospectively enrolled and randomly divided into two groups. In group A and group B, 28 mL and 40 mL of 370 mgI/mL iodinated contrast media was administrated at a flow rate of 3.5 and 5 mL/s, respectively. CT values, noise, signal-to-noise ratio, contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) of the proximal segments of coronary arteries and subjective IQ were evaluated.

Results: The CT values and noise in group A were significantly lower than those in group B (434-485 Hounsfield units [HU] vs. 772-851 HU, all < 0.001; 17.8-22.3 vs. 23.3-26.4, all < 0.005). The CNRs of the right coronary artery and left main artery showed no statistical difference between the two groups (42.1 ± 13.8 vs. 36.8 ± 16.0, = 0.074; 38.7 ± 10.6 vs. 38.1 ± 17.0, = 0.819). No statistical difference was observed between the two groups in IQ scores (3.04 ± 0.75 vs. 3.0 ± 0.79, = 0.526) and diagnostic ratio (96.1% [50/52] vs. 94.2% [49/52], = 0.647).

Conclusion: Prospective high-pitch CCTA at 70 kVp with 28 mL of contrast media and injection rate of 3.5 mL/s could provide diagnostic IQ for normal-weight patients with heart rate of < 70 beats/min.

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