Hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas: Bolus tracking with a 40-detector CT scanner to time arterial phase imaging

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 140-147

  Sultana, Shamima ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Nakayama, Yoshiharu ^a   Nakaura, Takeshi ^a   Liu, Duo ^a   Hatemura, Masahiro ^a   Funama, Yoshinori ^a   Morishita, Shoji ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34147193964     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2431060069     Document Type: Article

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