Renal cyst pseudoenhancement: Beam-hardening effects on CT numbers

Radiology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 468-472

  Maki, Daniel D ^a   Birnbaum, Bernard A ^a   Chakraborty, Dev P ^a   Jacobs, Jill E ^a   Carvalho, Bruno M ^a   Herman, Gabor T ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kidney, CT; Kidney, cysts

Indexed keywords

IONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; MEGLUMINE IOTALAMATE;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY DISEASE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032737285     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.213.2.r99nv33468     Document Type: Article

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