Dual-energy CT revisited with multidetector CT: Review of principles and clinical applications

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 181-194

  Karçaaltincaba, Muşturay ^a   Aktaş, Aykut ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gout; Iodine; Pulmonary embolism; Spiral computed; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; BODY MASS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; GOUT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; IRON OVERLOAD; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSEUDOGOUT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; UROLITHIASIS;

FEMALE; FORECASTING; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC DISEASES; TURKEY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 80052056686     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.3860-10.0     Document Type: Review

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