Effect of organ enhancement and habitus on estimation of unenhanced attenuation at contrast-enhanced dual-energy MDCT: Concepts for individualized and organ-specific spectral iodine subtraction strategies

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Miller, Chad M ^a   Gupta, Rajan T ^a   Paulson, Erik K ^a   Neville, Amy M ^a   Bashir, Mustafa R ^a   Merkle, Elmar M ^a   Boll, Daniel T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Dual energy MDCT; Iodine extraction

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IOPAMIDOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HABITUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; BODY SIZE; HEMATURIA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BODY SIZE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPLEEN;

EID: 79959619261     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4858     Document Type: Article

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