Feasibility of low-tube-voltage excretory phase images during CT urography: Assessment using a dual-energy CT scanner

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1146-1151

  Shinagare, Atul B ^a   Sahni, V Anik ^a   Sadow, Cheryl A ^a   Erturk, Sukru M ^a   Silverman, Stuart G ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT urography; Excretory phase; Low tube voltage CT; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC UROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY PELVIS; LOW TUBE VOLTAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPACIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URETER; URINARY EXCRETION; UROGRAPHY; X RAY TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGRAPHY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 80054948522     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6799     Document Type: Article

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