Biphasic contrast medium injection in cardiac CT: Moderate versus high concentration contrast material at identical iodine flux and iodine dose

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1917-1925

  Rutten, Annemarieke ^a   Meijs, Matthijs F L ^a   De Vos, Alexander M ^a   Seidensticker, Peter R ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast medium concentration; Contrast medium injection protocol; Coronary CT angiography

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957935121     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-010-1752-4     Document Type: Article

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