Late-arterial and portal-venous phase imaging of the liver with a multislice CT scanner in patients without circulatory disturbances: Automatic bolus tracking or empirical scan delay?

European Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1665-1673

  Itoh, Shigeki ^a   Ikeda, Mitsuru ^b   Achiwa, Masataka ^b   Satake, Hiroko ^c   Iwano, Shingo ^c   Ishigaki, Takeo ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast enhancement computed tomography; CT; Helical computed tomography; Technology liver

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CALCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; ISCHEMIA; LIVER ARTERIOGRAPHY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PANCREAS; PORTOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 4544356063     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-004-2321-5     Document Type: Article

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