Detection of pancreatic tumors, image quality, and radiation dose during the pancreatic parenchymal phase: Effect of a low-tube-voltage, high-tube-current CT technique - Preliminary results

Radiology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 450-459

  Marin, Daniele ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a   Barnhart, Huiman ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^b   Ho, Lisa M ^a   Jaffe, Tracy A ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Youngblood, Richard ^a,c   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; BODY BURDEN; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955134896     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10091819     Document Type: Article

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