Severity assessment of pulmonary embolism using dual energy CT - Correlation of a pulmonary perfusion defect score with clinical and morphological parameters of blood oxygenation and right ventricular failure

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 269-278

  Thieme, Sven F ^a   Ashoori, Nima ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^a   Sommer, Wieland H ^a   Johnson, Thorsten R C ^a   Leuchte, Hanno ^a   Becker, Alexander ^a   Maxien, Daniel ^a   Helck, Andreas D ^a   Behr, Jürgen ^a,b   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dual energy CT; Functional lung imaging; Lung perfusion; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LOBE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTORA SCORE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY PERFUSION DEFECT SCORE; PULMONARY VALVE; RATING SCALE; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; BLOOD; CARDIOLOGY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PERFUSION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84856619004     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2267-3     Document Type: Article

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