Abdominal dynamic CT in patients with renal dysfunction: Contrast agent dose reduction with low tube voltage and high tube current-time product settings at 256-detector row CT

Radiology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 467-476

  Nakaura, Takeshi ^a,b   Awai, Kazuo ^c   Maruyama, Natsuki ^a,b   Takata, Noboru ^a   Yoshinaka, Ichiro ^a   Harada, Kazunori ^a   Uemura, Shouzaburou ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a AMAKUSA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMINAL DYNAMIC COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STUDENT T TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054778406     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110021     Document Type: Article

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