Body Perfusion CT: Technique, Clinical Applications, and Advances

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 161-178

  Kambadakone, Avinash R ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Functional imaging; Perfusion CT; Surrogate bio marker; Tumor angiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; BEVACIZUMAB; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ANTENNA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FIBROSARCOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGY; ORGAN PERFUSION; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSARCOMA; REVIEW; STROKE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58949094890     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2008.11.003     Document Type: Review

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