Optimization of 64-MDCT urography: Effect of dual-phase imaging with furosemide on collecting system opacification and radiation dose

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Portnoy, Orith ^a,b   Guranda, Larisa ^a,b   Apter, Sara ^a,b   Eiss, David ^c   Amitai, Marianne Michal ^a,b   Konen, Eli ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Furosemide; Hematuria; MDCT; Protocol; Urography

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL PHASE SPLIT BOLUS PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY COLLECTING TUBULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REDUCED RADIATION THREE PHASE PROTOCOL WITH SALINE INFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE PHASE PROTOCOL WITH SALINE INFUSION; UROGENITAL SCINTISCANNING; UROGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; DIURETICS; FEMALE; FUROSEMIDE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGRAPHY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 80054900858     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6965     Document Type: Article

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