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June 2013 Br J Cardiol 2013;20:67–71 doi:10.5837/bjc.2013.18
Iterative reconstruction algorithms allow greater diagnostic certainty in 64-slice platforms: CAPIR results
Peter McKavanagh, Lisa Lusk, Peter A Ball, Tom R Trinick, Ellie Duly, Gerard M Walls, Sarah McCusker, Mohammad Alkhalil, Claire Louise McQuillan, Mark T Harbinson, Patrick M Donnelly
Introduction The use of cardiac computerised tomography (CT) in the UK is changing. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline 95 (CG95) defined its role in the assessment of stable chest pain patients.1 Further, recent NICE diagnostics guidance 3 (DG3) has recommended the use of newer scanners for difficult patients and specifically addressed the concerns about the effective radiation dose (ED) of earlier CT platforms.2 However, the commercial availability of the latest CT scanners is not yet widespread within the National Health Service (NHS). The 64-detector CT is presently the workhorse of the NHS and
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