Introduction of a dedicated circulation phantom for comprehensive in vitro analysis of intravascular contrast material application

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 729-736

  Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Bruners, Philipp ^a   Kalafut, John ^b   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a   Keil, Sebastian ^a   Plumhans, Cedric ^a   Das, Marco ^a   Stanzel, Sven ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^c   Pfeffer, Jochen ^d   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b MEDRAD   (United States)

^c HELIOS KLINIKUM BERLIN BUCH   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast media; CT; Injection protocol; Phantom

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOMEPROL; IOPROMIDE;

AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY; DEVICE; DIASTOLE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HEART STROKE VOLUME; INJECTION; LUNG ARTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTOLE; ANTHROPOMETRY; CIRCULATION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; AORTA; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149389587     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318182267e     Document Type: Article

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