Determining the optimal timing for early arterial phase hepatic CT imaging by measuring abdominal aortic enhancement in variable contrast injection protocols

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 206-211

  Murakami, Takamichi ^a,e   Onishi, Hiromitsu ^a   Mikami, Koji ^a   Iannaccone, Riccardo ^b   Federle, Michael P ^c   Kim, Tonsok ^a   Hori, Masatoshi ^a   Okada, Atsuya ^d   Marukawa, Taro ^d   Higashihara, Hiroki ^a   Passariello, Roberto ^b   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Iseikai Hospital   (Japan)

^e KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Computed tomography (CT); Contrast enhancement; CT; Multi detector row

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

AORTA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; INJECTION DURATIONS; MULTI-DETECTOR ROW; MULTI-DETECTORS; OPTIMAL TIMING; TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIA;

NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME;

EID: 33646707258     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200603000-00007     Document Type: Article

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