Focal cystic high-attenuation lesions: Characterization in renal phantom by using photon-counting spectral CT - Improved differentiation of lesion composition

Radiology

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 270-276

  Boll, Daniel T ^a   Patil, Neil A ^d   Paulson, Erik K ^a   Merkle, Elmar M ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^a   Roessl, Ewald ^b   Martens, Gerhard ^b   Proksa, Roland ^b   Fleiter, Thorsten R ^c   Schlomka, Jens Peter ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE; IODIXANOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; SPECTRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75349109094     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09090068     Document Type: Article

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