Clinical potentials for dynamic contrast-enhanced hepatic volumetric cine imaging with the prototype 256-MDCT scanner

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 253-256

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a,b   Obata, Takayuki ^a   Kishimoto, Riwa ^a   Kato, Hirotoshi ^a   Murase, Kenya ^b   Fujiwara, Hideaki ^b   Kandatsu, Susumu ^a   Tanada, Shuji ^a   Tsujii, Hirohiko ^a   Endo, Masahiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOTYPE 256 MDCT SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENERAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOPAMIDOL;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 24644502799     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.1.01850253     Document Type: Article

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