Hepatocellular carcinoma in patients weighing 70 kg or less: Initial trial of compact-bolus dynamic CT with low-dose contrast material at 80 kVp

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1324-1331

  Yanaga, Yumi ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Nakaura, Takeshi ^a   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a   Funama, Yoshinori ^a   Date, Shuji ^b   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contrast material; Hepatic dynamic CT; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Low tube voltage; MDCT

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960489253     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4545     Document Type: Article

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