Hypervascular liver tumors: Low tube voltage, high tube current multidetector CT during late hepatic arterial phase for detection - Initial clinical experience

Radiology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 771-779

  Marin, Daniele ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a   Paulson, Erik K ^a   Ho, Lisa M ^a   Boll, Daniel T ^a   DeLong, David M ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER NODULE; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; TUBE CURRENT; TUBE VOLTAGE; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67049172574     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2513081330     Document Type: Article

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