Low contrast agent and radiation dose protocol for hepatic dynamic CT of thin adults at 256-detector row CT: Effect of low tube voltage and hybrid iterative reconstruction algorithm on image quality

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 445-454

  Nakaura, Takeshi ^a,b   Nakamura, Shinichi ^a,b   Maruyama, Natsuki ^a,b   Funama, Yoshinori ^d   Awai, Kazuo ^c   Harada, Kazunori ^a   Uemura, Shouzaburou ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a AMAKUSA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL; IOMEPROL; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THINNESS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864341805     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111082     Document Type: Article

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