CT angiography of pulmonary arteries to detect pulmonary embolism: Improvement of vascular enhancement with low kilovoltage settings

Radiology

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 899-907

  Schueller Weidekamm, Claudia ^a   Schaefer Prokop, Cornelia M ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Herold, Christian J ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE; IOPROMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33846695725     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2413040128     Document Type: Article

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