The frequency of insufficient contrast enhancement of the pulmonary artery in routine contrast-enhanced chest CT and its improvement with an increased injection rate: A prospective study

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-47

  Ozawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Hara, Masaki ^a   Shibamoto, Yuta ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

artifact; contrast enhancement; contrast material; CT; pulmonary artery

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL; IOPROMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRUNK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551554914     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e3181ced07a     Document Type: Article

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