Renal cyst pseudoenhancement at multidetector CT: What are the effects of number of detectors and peak tube voltage?

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 910-916

  Wang, Zhen J ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a   Fu, Yanjun ^a   Joe, Bonnie N ^a   Prevrhal, Sven ^a   Landeras, Luis A ^a   Webb, Emma M ^a   Yeh, Benjamin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; KIDNEY CYST; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51549117364     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2482071583     Document Type: Article

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