Effect of patient weight and scanning duration on contrast enhancement during pulmonary multidetector CT angiography

Radiology

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 582-589

  Bae, Kyongtae T ^a   Tao, Cheng ^a   Gürel, Satiye ^c   Hong, Cheng ^a   Zhu, Fang ^a   Gebke, Todd A ^b   Milite, Margherita ^d   Hildebolt, Charles F ^b  

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

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BOLUS INJECTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 33846420993     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2422052132     Document Type: Article

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