Multiphase CT angiography versus single-phase CT angiography: Comparison of image quality and radiation dose

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1288-1295

  Yang, C Y ^a   Chen, Y F ^a   Lee, C W ^a   Huang, A ^a   Shen, Y ^b   Wei, C ^b   Liu, Hon Man ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b General Electric Yokogawa Medical Systems   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEAD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; RADIATION DOSE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49749103154     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1073     Document Type: Article

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