Quantitative dual energy CT measurements in rabbit VX2 liver tumors: Comparison to perfusion CT measurements and histopathological findings

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1766-1775

  Zhang, Long Jiang ^a   Wu, Shengyong ^b   Wang, Mei ^a   Lu, Li ^a   Chen, Bo ^a   Jin, Lixin ^c   Wang, Jiandong ^a   Larson, Andrew C ^d   Lu, Guang Ming ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Medical Imaging Institute of Tianjin   (China)

^c Siemens Healthcare   (China)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual energy; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION DOSE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL LINE, TUMOR; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PERFUSION IMAGING; RABBITS; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864470491     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.06.057     Document Type: Article

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