Quantitative computed tomography liver perfusion imaging using dynamic spiral scanning with variable pitch: Feasibility and initial results in patients with cancer metastases

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 419-426

  Goetti, Robert ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^a   Desbiolles, Lotus ^a   Klotz, Ernst ^b   Samaras, Panagiotis ^a   Von Boehmer, Lotta ^a   Stenner, Frank ^a   Reiner, Cäcilia ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Scheffel, Hans ^a   Knuth, Alexander ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; liver; metastasis; perfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SECONDARY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PERFUSION IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 77954088057     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181e1937b     Document Type: Article

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