Sixty-Four Multi-Detector Row Computed Tomography in Multitrauma Patient Imaging: Early Experience

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 188-198

  Anderson, Stephan W ^a   Lucey, Brian C ^a   Varghese, Jose C ^a   Soto, Jorge A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747851073     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2006.06.004     Document Type: Review

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