Cerebral CT angiography using a reduced dose of contrast material at high iodine concentration in combination with a saline flush

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1332-1335

  Tsuchiya, K ^a   Honya, K ^a   Yoshida, M ^a   Gomyo, M ^a   Nitatori, T ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IOMEPROL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IODINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 55249088953     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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