Isotropic CT Examination of Abdomen and Pelvis. Diagnostic Quality of Reformat

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1338-1343

  Sandrasegaran, Kumaresan ^a   Rydberg, Jonas ^a   Akisik, Fatih ^a   Hameed, Tariq A ^a   Dunkle, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; image quality; Isotropic imaging; multiplanar reformation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIATRIZOATE; IOPAMIDOL; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATHING MECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; NOISE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREATITIS; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33751002617     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.04.019     Document Type: Article

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