Feasibility of Low-volume Injections of Contrast Material with a Body Weight-Adapted Iodine-Dose Protocol in 320-Detector Row Coronary CT Angiography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-211

  Tatsugami, Fuminari ^a   Matsuki, Mitsuru ^a   Inada, Yuki ^a   Kanazawa, Shuji ^a   Nakai, Go ^a   Takeda, Yoshihiro ^a   Morita, Hideaki ^a   Takada, Haruhiko ^a   Ashida, Kenji ^a   Yoshikawa, Shushi ^a   Fukumura, Katsunori ^a   Narumi, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

320 detector row CT; Cardiac CT; contrast material; CT coronary angiography; injection method

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; METOPROLOL TARTRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART BEAT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INJECTION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION PROTECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73049110569     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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