A low-kilovolt (Peak) high-tube current technique improves venous enhancement and reduces the radiation dose at indirect multidetector-row CT venography: Initial experience

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-147

  Nakaura, Takeshi ^a,b   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Oda, Seitaro ^b   Yanaga, Yumi ^b   Namimoto, Tomohiro ^b   Harada, Kazunori ^a   Uemura, Shouzaburou ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a Amakusa Regional Medical Center   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

contrast enhancement; deep vein thrombosis; Indirect CT venography; low kilovoltage; optimization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST-TO-NOISE RATIO; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; IMAGE NOISE; INDIRECT CT VENOGRAPHY; LOW KILOVOLTAGE; OPTIMISATIONS; TUBE CURRENTS; VENOGRAPHY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

D DIMER; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY VENOGRAPHY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 79551514778     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181f5a62e     Document Type: Article

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