Multidetector CT of pancreas: Effects of contrast material flow rate and individualized scan delay on enhancement of pancreas and tumor contrast

Radiology

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 441-448

  Schueller, Gerd ^a   Schima, Wolfgang ^a   Schueller Weidekamm, Claudia ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Stift, Anton ^a   Gnant, Michael ^a   Prokesch, Rupert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33750339166     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2412051107     Document Type: Article

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