Optimization of scan delay for routine abdominal 64-slice CT with body weight-adapted application of contrast metarial

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 181, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 683-690

  Tschugunow, A ^a   Puesken, M ^a   Juergens, K U ^a   Beyer, F ^a   Buerke, B ^a   Selfarth, H ^a   Helndel, W ^a   Wessling J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

64 slice mdct protocols; Abdomen; Contrast material

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ADULT; AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER STAGING; CELIAC ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER; LIVER VEIN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CELIAC ARTERY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PANCREAS; PORTAL VEIN; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650230241     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: 14389010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/S-0028-1109201     Document Type: Article

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