Assessment of the of use a saline chaser to reduce the volume of contrast medium in abdominal CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 511-515

  Orlandini, Florence ^a   Boini, Stéphanie ^a   Iochum Duchamps, Sandrine ^a   Batch, Toufik ^a   Zhu, Xavier ^a   Blum, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Aorta; Contrast media; Liver; Saline chaser

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOBITRIDOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746645544     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.0942     Document Type: Article

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