Improvement of parenchymal and vascular enchancement using saline flush and power injection for multiple-detector-row abdominal CT

European Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 659-664

  Schoellnast, Helmut ^a   Tillich, Manfred ^a   Deutschmann, Hannes A ^a   Stessel, Uwe ^a   Deutschmann, Michael J ^a   Schaffler, George J ^a   Schoellnast, Renate ^a   Uggowitzer, Martin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Comparative study; Contrast media; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; KIDNEY CORTEX; LIVER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PANCREAS; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPLEEN;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 1842450677     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-2085-3     Document Type: Article

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