Multi-detector row helical CT of the liver: Quantitative assessment of iodine concentration of intravenous contrast material on multiphasic CT - A prospective randomized study

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 239-245

  Tsurusaki, Masakatsu ^a   Sugimoto, Koji ^a   Fujii, Masahiko ^a   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Computed tomography (CT); Contrast material; Liver

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPAMIDOL; IOPAMIRON 370;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IODINE; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4644226709     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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