Perfusion changes of hepatic parenchyma due to infectious hepatobiliary disease: Demonstration by perfusion CT

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 289-291

  Tsushima, Yoshito ^a,c   Funabasama, Shintaro ^b   Sanada, Shigeru ^b   Aoki, Jun ^a   Endo, Keigo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Motojima General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Dynamic CT; Functional CT; Infectious disease; Liver; Perfusion; Perfusion CT; Quantitative imaging

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BILOMAS;

DISEASES;

AGED; ARTICLE; BILOMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM INFECTION; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0242586044     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(02)00079-4     Document Type: Article

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