Assessment of a bolus-tracking technique in helical renal CT to optimize nephrographic phase imaging

Radiology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-94

  Birnbaum, Bernard A ^a   Jacobs, Jill E ^a   Langlotz, Curtis P ^a   Ramchandani, Parvati ^a  

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

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), helical,; Computed tomography (CT), technology; Kidney neoplasms, CT; Kidney neoplasms, diagnosis

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; MEGLUMINE IOTALAMATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY TOMOGRAPHY; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032910064     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.211.1.r99ap4187     Document Type: Article

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