Helical body CT: Evolution of scanning protocols

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1427-1438

  Zeman, Robert K ^a   Baron, Richard L ^b   Brooke Jeffrey Jr , R ^b   Klein, Jeffrey ^b   Siegel, Marilyn J ^b   Silverman, Paul M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; IONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; APPENDICITIS; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY COLIC; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL AIRWAY DISEASE;

EID: 0031836192     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.170.6.9609149     Document Type: Review

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