Right heart: Split-bolus injection of diluted contrast medium for visualization at coronary CT angiography

Radiology

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 356-364

  Kerl, J Matthias ^a,b   Ravenel, James G ^a   Nguyen, Shaun A ^a   Suranyi, Pal ^a   Thilo, Christian ^a   Costello, Philip ^a   Bautz, Werner ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44449151565     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2472070856     Document Type: Article

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