MDCT of the pancreas: Optimizing scanning delay with a bolus-tracking technique for pancreatic, peripancreatic vascular, and hepatic contrast enhancement

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 751-756

  Kondo, Hiroshi ^a   Kanematsu, Masayuki ^a,b   Goshima, Satoshi ^a   Miyoshi, Toshiharu ^a   Shiratori, Yoshimune ^a   Onozuka, Minoru ^b   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^c   Bae, Kyongtae T ^d  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast media; CT technique; Liver; MDCT; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPHASE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNING; PANCREAS BLOOD FLOW; PANCREATOGRAPHY; PARENCHYMA; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPLENIC VEIN; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847176611     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.0372     Document Type: Article

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