Contrast material injection protocol with the dose adjusted to the body surface area for MDCT aortography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 903-908

  Yanaga, Yumi ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Nakaura, Takeshi ^b   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^b   Oda, Seitaro ^b   Hirai, Toshinori ^b   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aortic attenuation; Body surface area; Cardiac imaging; Contrast media; CT angiography; MDCT aortography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOMEPROL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950597465     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3460     Document Type: Article

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