Split-bolus CT-urography using dual-energy CT: Feasibility, image quality and dose reduction

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3160-3165

  Takeuchi, Mitsuru ^a   Kawai, Tatsuya ^a   Ito, Masato ^a   Ogawa, Masaki ^a   Ohashi, Kazuya ^b   Hara, Masaki ^a   Shibamoto, Yuta ^a  

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

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT urography; Dual energy CT; Radiation dose reduction; Virtual non enhanced image

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY SPLIT BOLUS COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY UROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; URETER; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UROGRAPHY; UROTHELIUM CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 84866998213     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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