Dual-energy CT Can Evaluate Both Hilar and Mediastinal Lymph Nodes and Lesion Vascularity with a Single Scan at 60 Seconds after Contrast Medium Injection

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1003-1010

  Ogawa, Masaki ^a   Hara, Masaki ^a   Imafuji, Ayano ^a   Ozawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Arakawa, Toshinao ^a   Kobayashi, Susumu ^a   Shibamoto, Yuta ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest; DECT; Dual energy CT; Enhanced CT; Injection time; Lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG HILUS LYMPH NODE; LUNG LESION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; SCORING SYSTEM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863445141     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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