Pancreas: Patient body weight-tailored contrast material injection protocol versus fixed dose protocol at dynamic CT

Radiology

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 475-482

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

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST MEDIA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 35348996041     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2452061749     Document Type: Article

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