Evaluation of Renal Transplant Donors with 16-Section Multidetector CT Angiography: Comparison of Contrast Media with Low and High Iodine Concentrations

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 603-609

  Rau, Matthew M ^a   Setty, Bindu N ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a   Ouellette Piazzo, Kathy ^a   Hahn, Peter F ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RENAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE COMPOUNDS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247549586     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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