Effect of contrast injection protocols with dose adjusted to the estimated lean patient body weight on aortic enhancement at CT angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1071-1078

  Yanaga, Yumi ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Nakaura, Takeshi ^a   Oda, Seitaro ^a   Funama, Yoshinori ^b   Bae, Kyongtae T ^c   Yamashital, Yasuyki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Aorta; Aortoiliac disease; Cardiac imaging; Contrast injection protocols; Contrast media; CT angiography

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JAPANESE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX RATIO; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC DISEASES; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63849116527     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1407     Document Type: Article

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