Can Dual-energy CT Evaluate Contrast Enhancement of Ground-glass Attenuation? Phantom and Preliminary Clinical Studies

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 682-689

  Kawai, Tatsuya ^a   Shibamoto, Yuta ^a   Hara, Masaki ^a   Arakawa, Toshinao ^a   Nagai, Keiichi ^a   Ohashi, Kazuya ^a  

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

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Contrast media; Dual energy; Iodine; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; CALCIUM; IODINE; RESIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALUMINUM SILICATES; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODATES; IOPAMIDOL; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SEPHAROSE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955571646     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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