Contrast-enhanced CT of small hypovascular hepatic tumors: Effect of lesion enhancement on conspicuity in rabbits

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 471-475

  Kuszyk, Brian S ^a   Bluemke, David A ^a   Choti, Michael A ^a   Horton, Karen M ^a   Magee, Carolyn A ^a   Fishman, Elliot K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; ANIMAL; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; RABBITS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0343920769     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.174.2.1740471     Document Type: Article

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