Contrast enhancement in cardiovascular MDCT: Effect of body weight, height, body surface area, body mass index, and obesity

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 777-784

  Bae, Kyongtae T ^a   Seeck, Brian A ^b   Hildebolt, Charles F ^c   Tao, Cheng ^a   Zhu, Fang ^a   Kanematsu, Masayuki ^d   Woodard, Pamela K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Cardiac CT; CT angiography; Vascular imaging

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SURFACE AREA; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 39749180841     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2765     Document Type: Article

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