Optimal contrast medium injection protocols for the depiction of the Adamkiewicz artery using 64-detector CT angiography

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 880-887

  Nakayama, Y ^a   Awai, K ^a   Yanaga, Y ^a   Nakaura, T ^a   Funama, Y ^b   Hirai, T ^a   Yamashita, Y ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADAMKIEWICZ ARTERY; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTERY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 46749139490     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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