MDCT Evaluation of the Pancreas: Nuts and Bolts

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-377

  Bashir, Mustafa R ^a   Gupta, Rajan T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging protocols; Multidetector CT; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER METASTASIS; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PANCREAS DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84860597969     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2012.03.012     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Brant W.E., Helms C.A. Fundamentals of diagnostic radiology 2007, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia. 3rd edition.
2. Chaya C.T., Bhutani M.S. Ultrasonography of the pancreas. 6. Endoscopic imaging. Abdom Imaging 2007, 32(2):191-199.
3. Yu J., Turner M.A., Fulcher A.S., et al. Congenital anomalies and normal variants of the pancreaticobiliary tract and the pancreas in adults: part 2, Pancreatic duct and pancreas. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2006, 187(6):1544-1553.
4. Campisi A., Brancatelli G., Vullierme M.P., et al. Are pancreatic calcifications specific for the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis? A multidetector-row CT analysis. Clin Radiol 2009, 64(9):903-911.
5. Sahni V.A., Mortele K.J. The bloody pancreas: MDCT and MRI features of hypervascular and hemorrhagic pancreatic conditions. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2009, 192(4):923-935.
6. Coursey C.A., Nelson R.C., Boll D.T., et al. Dual-energy multidetector CT: how does it work, what can it tell us, and when can we use it in abdominopelvic imaging?. Radiographics 2010, 30(4):1037-1055.
7. Fletcher J.G., Wiersema M.J., Farrell M.A., et al. Pancreatic malignancy: value of arterial, pancreatic, and hepatic phase imaging with multi-detector row CT. Radiology 2003, 229(1):81-90.
8. Lu D.S., Vedantham S., Krasny R.M., et al. Two-phase helical CT for pancreatic tumors: pancreatic versus hepatic phase enhancement of tumor, pancreas, and vascular structures. Radiology 1996, 199(3):697-701.
9. Prokesch R.W., Chow L.C., Beaulieu C.F., et al. Isoattenuating pancreatic adenocarcinoma at multi-detector row CT: secondary signs. Radiology 2002, 224(3):764-768.
10. Kim H.C., Yang D.M., Kim H.J., et al. Computed tomography appearances of various complications associated with pancreatic pseudocysts. Acta Radiol 2008, 49(7):727-734.
11. Nishiharu T., Yamashita Y., Ogata I., et al. Spiral CT of the pancreas. The value of small field-of-view targeted reconstruction. Acta Radiol 1998, 39(1):60-63.
12. Jain P., Nijhawan S. Portal vein thrombosis: etiology and clinical outcome of cirrhosis and malignancy-related non-cirrhotic, non-tumoral extrahepatic portal venous obstruction. World J Gastroenterol 2007, 13(39):5288-5289.
13. Valls C., Andia E., Sanchez A., et al. Dual-phase helical CT of pancreatic adenocarcinoma: assessment of resectability before surgery. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2002, 178(4):821-826.
14. Yanaga Y., Awai K., Nakayama Y., et al. Pancreas: patient body weight tailored contrast material injection protocol versus fixed dose protocol at dynamic CT. Radiology 2007, 245(2):475-482.
15. Marin D., Nelson R.C., Guerrisi A., et al. 64-section multidetector CT of the upper abdomen: optimization of a saline chaser injection protocol for improved vascular and parenchymal contrast enhancement. Eur Radiol 2011, 21(9):1938-1947.
16. Kwon Y., Park H.S., Kim Y.J., et al. Multidetector row computed tomography of acute pancreatitis: utility of single portal phase CT scan in short-term follow up. Eur J Radiol 2011, [Epub ahead of print].
17. Schindera S.T., Diedrichsen L., Muller H.C., et al. Iterative reconstruction algorithm for abdominal multidetector CT at different tube voltages: assessment of diagnostic accuracy, image quality, and radiation dose in a phantom study. Radiology 2011, 260(2):454-462.
18. May M.S., Wust W., Brand M., et al. Dose reduction in abdominal computed tomography: intraindividual comparison of image quality of full-dose standard and half-dose iterative reconstructions with dual-source computed tomography. Invest Radiol 2011, 46(7):465-470.
19. Singh S., Kalra M.K., Hsieh J., et al. Abdominal CT: comparison of adaptive statistical iterative and filtered back projection reconstruction techniques. Radiology 2010, 257(2):373-383.
20. Silva A.C., Morse B.G., Hara A.K., et al. Dual-energy (spectral) CT: applications in abdominal imaging. Radiographics 2011, 31(4):1031-1046. [discussion: 47-50].
21. Leng S., Yu L., Wang J., et al. Noise reduction in spectral CT: reducing dose and breaking the trade-off between image noise and energy bin selection. Med Phys 2011, 38(9):4946-4957.
22. Fukushima H., Itoh S., Takada A., et al. Diagnostic value of curved multiplanar reformatted images in multislice CT for the detection of resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Eur Radiol 2006, 16(8):1709-1718.
23. Gong J.S., Xu J.M. Role of curved planar reformations using multidetector spiral CT in diagnosis of pancreatic and peripancreatic diseases. World J Gastroenterol 2004, 10(13):1943-1947.
24. Kim H.C., Yang D.M., Jin W., et al. Multiplanar reformations and minimum intensity projections using multi-detector row CT for assessing anomalies and disorders of the pancreaticobiliary tree. World J Gastroenterol 2007, 13(31):4177-4184.
25. Yun B.L., Kim S.H., Kim S.J., et al. Added value of multiplanar reformations to axial multi-detector row computed tomographic images for the differentiation of macrocystic pancreas neoplasms: receiver operating characteristic analysis. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2010, 34(6):899-906.
26. Marin D., Nelson R.C., Barnhart H., et al. Detection of pancreatic tumors, image quality, and radiation dose during the pancreatic parenchymal phase: effect of a low-tube-voltage, high-tube-current CT technique-preliminary results. Radiology 2010, 256(2):450-459.
27. Macari M., Spieler B., Kim D., et al. Dual-source dual-energy MDCT of pancreatic adenocarcinoma: initial observations with data generated at 80 kVp and at simulated weighted-average 120 kVp. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2010, 194(1):W27-W32.
28. Lu N., Feng X.Y., Hao S.J., et al. 64-slice CT perfusion imaging of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and mass-forming chronic pancreatitis. Acad Radiol 2011, 18(1):81-88.
29. Park M.S., Klotz E., Kim M.J., et al. Perfusion CT: noninvasive surrogate marker for stratification of pancreatic cancer response to concurrent chemo- and radiation therapy. Radiology 2009, 250(1):110-117.