CT angiography covering both cervical and cerebral arteries using high iodine concentration contrast material with dose reduction on a 16 multidetector-row system

Neuroradiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 291-295

  Fujikawa, Akira ^a   Tsuchiya, Kazuhiro ^b   Imai, Masamichi ^b   Nitatori, Toshiaki ^b  

^a Self Defense Forces Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomographic angiography (CTA); Contrast dose; Contrast material; Multidetector row computed tomography(MDCT)

Indexed keywords

IODINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IODINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRAIGHT SINUS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IODINE COMPOUNDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953034723     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-009-0611-y     Document Type: Article

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