Quantitative Perfusion Map of Malignant Liver Tumors, Created from Dynamic Computed Tomography Data

Academic Radiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-223

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

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Motojima General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; CT; Functional CT; Liver tumor; Perfusion CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA;

EID: 0942287356     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)00578-6     Document Type: Article

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