Kidney and urinary tract imaging: Triple-bolus multidetector CT urography as a one-stop shop - Protocol design, opacification, and image quality analysis

Radiology

Volumn 255, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 508-516

  Kekelidze, Maka ^a   Dwarkasing, Roy S ^a   Dijkshoorn, Marcel L ^a   Sikorska, Karolina ^a   Verhagen, Paul C M S ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; URETER; UROGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS; UROGRAPHY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 77951453333     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09082074     Document Type: Article

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