Demonstration of the Adamkiewicz artery in patients with descending or thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm: Optimization of contrast-medium application for 64-detector-row CT angiography

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2684-2690

  Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b   Okumura, Syuichiro ^a   Urata, Joji ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI KUMAMOTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adamkiewicz artery; Aortic aneurysm; Contrast media; Helical computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL;

ADAMKIEWICZ ARTERY; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFUSION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THORACIC DESCENDING AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACOABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54049091169     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1036-4     Document Type: Article

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