Evaluation of optimal scan duration and end time in cerebral CT perfusion study

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 351-363

  Hirata, Masaaki ^a   Sugawara, Yoshifumi ^a   Murase, Kenya ^b   Miki, Hitoshi ^a   Mochizuki, Teruhito ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral CT perfusion; Multi detector row CT; Radiation dose; Scan time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CALCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; TIME;

AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; BASAL GANGLIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 24644498230     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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