MDCT for the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism

European Radiology, Supplement

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Schaefer Prokop, Cornelia ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute pulmonary angiography; CT angiography; Multidetector CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; D DIMER;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30744457853     PISSN: 16133749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10406-005-0144-3     Document Type: Review

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