Simulation of aortic peak enhancement on MDCT using a contrast material flow phantom: Feasibility study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 379-385

  Awai, Kazuo ^a   Hatcho, Atsushi ^b   Nakayama, Yoshiharu ^a   Kusunoki, Shinichiro ^a   Liu, Duo ^a   Hatemura, Masahiro ^c   Funama, Yoshinori ^d   Denbo, Masayuki ^e   Sato, Natsuko ^f   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGANO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Nemoto Kyorindo   (Japan)

^f PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta; Contrast media; MDCT; Phantom study

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG INFUSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFUSION RATE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOHEXOL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644980740     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1591     Document Type: Article

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