Helical computed tomography at 1.5:1 pitch reconstructed at 15-mm and 7-mm intervals for examination of patients with suspected metastatic disease

Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-58

  Olson, Mary C ^a   Posniak, Harold V ^a   Demos, Terrence C ^a   Pierce, Ken L ^a   Lawson, Thomas L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Helical computed tomography; Metastatic disease; Retrospective reconstruction; Variable pitch

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; METASTASIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029983006     PISSN: 00082902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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