Cerebral venous thrombosis and multidetector CT angiography: Tips and tricks

Radiographics

Volumn 26, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages

  Rodallec, Mathieu H ^a   Krainik, Alexandre ^b   Feydy, Antoine ^c   Hélias, Annick ^d   Colombani, Jean Michel ^d   Jullès, Marie Christine ^a   Marteau, Véronique ^a   Zins, Marc ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

^d BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VEIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL VEINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34250752331     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.26si065505     Document Type: Review

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