Assessing early vascular changes and treatment response after laser-induced thermotherapy of pulmonary metastases with perfusion CT: Initial experience

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1116-1123

  Hegenscheid, Katrin ^a   Behrendt, Nicole ^a   Rosenberg, Christian ^a   Kuehn, Jens Peter ^a   Ewert, Ralf ^a   Hosten, Norbert ^a   Puls, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser ablation; Lung neoplasms; Perfusion CT; Pulmonary metastasis; Thermotherapy

Indexed keywords

ACCUPAQUE; IOHEXOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LASER; LASER INDUCED THERMOTHERAPY; LUNG METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE PERFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BLOOD FLOW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IOHEXOL; LASERS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950597570     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2810     Document Type: Article

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