Whole-brain perfusion imaging with 320-MDCT scanner: Reducing radiation dose by increasing sampling interval

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1183-1186

  Shankar, Jai Jai Shiva ^a   Lum, Cheemun ^b   Sharma, Mukul ^b  

^a QE II Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

320 MDCT; Perfusion CT; Radiation dose; Whole brain perfusion CT

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649696122     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4230     Document Type: Article

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