Aortic and hepatic contrast enhancement with abdominal 64-MDCT in pediatric patients: Effect of body weight and iodine dose

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1589-1594

  Bae, Kyongtae T ^a   Shah, Amisha J ^a   Shang, Sherry S ^a,b   Jin, Hong Wang ^a   Chang, Samuel ^a   Kanematsu, Masayuki ^c   Hildebolt, Charles F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Contrast agents; CT; IV; Pediatric patients

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IOVERSOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; AORTA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIVER; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PEDIATRICS; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER; MALE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 55549134300     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3576     Document Type: Article

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