Dual-energy ct with single- and dual-source scanners: Current applications in evaluating the genitourinary tract

Radiographics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 353-369

  Kaza, Ravi K ^a   Platt, Joel F ^a   Cohan, Richard H ^a   Caoili, Elaine M ^a   Al Hawary, Mahmoud M ^a   Wasnik, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; WATER;

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UROGRAPHY;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE; KIDNEY CALCULI; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UROGRAPHY; WATER;

EID: 84858124994     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.322115065     Document Type: Article

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