Prediction of aortic peak enhancement in monophasic contrast injection protocols at multidetector CT: Phantom and patient studies

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-21

  Awai, Kazuo ^a   Nakayama, Yoshiharu ^a   Nakaura, Takeshi ^a   Yanaga, Yumi ^a   Tamura, Yoshitaka ^a   Hatemura, Masahiro ^b   Funama, Yoshinori ^c   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; THYROID CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33847730715     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-006-0095-1     Document Type: Article

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