Optimal dose and injection duration (injection rate) of contrast material for depiction of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas by multidetector CT

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 278-288

  Yanaga, Yumi ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Nakayama, Yoshiharu ^a   Nakaura, Takeshi ^a   Tamura, Yoshitaka ^a   Funama, Yoshinori ^b   Aoyama, Masahito ^c   Asada, Naoki ^c   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Hepatocellular carcinoma; MDCT

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRCULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RATING SCALE; SIMULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348908893     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0138-2     Document Type: Article

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