Effect of contrast injection protocol with dose tailored to patient weight and fixed injection duration on aortic and hepatic enhancement at multidetector-row helical CT

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2155-2160

  Awai, Kazuo ^a   Hori, Shinichi ^b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Radiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Computed tomography; Contrast material; Liver

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0042327834     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-1904-x     Document Type: Article

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