Pulmonary Enhancement Imaging with Dual Energy CT for the Detection of Pulmonary Embolism in a Rabbit Model. Comparison to Perfusion Planar Scintigraphy, SPECT and SPECT-CT Modalities

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 605-614

  Yang, Gui Fen ^a   Yang, Xiaofeng ^b   Zhang, Long Jiang ^a   Zhu, Hong ^a   Chai, Xue ^c   Hu, Xiao Bo ^a   Hu, Yu Xiao ^a   Lu, Guang Ming ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dual energy; Lung scintigraphy; Pulmonary embolism; Single photon emission computed tomography; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; IOPROMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMORAL VEIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MCNEMAR TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PERFUSION IMAGING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 79953306819     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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