Dual-source dual-energy CT evaluation of complex cystic renal masses

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1026-1034

  Ascenti, Giorgio ^a   Mazziotti, Silvio ^a   Mileto, Achille ^a   Racchiusa, Sergio ^a   Donato, Rocco ^a   Settineri, Nicola ^a   Gaeta, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Color coded iodine overlay images; Complex cystic renal masses; Dual source dual energy CT; Radiation dose; Virtual nonenhanced images

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUAL SOURCE DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC CYST; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFLAMMATORY CYST; KIDNEY ABSCESS; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY HYDATID CYST; KIDNEY METASTASIS; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTILOCULAR CYSTIC NEPHROMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; VIRTUAL REALITY; XANTHOGRANULOMATOUS PYELONEPHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84865726979     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7711     Document Type: Article

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