Spectral optimization of chest CT angiography with reduced iodine load: Experience in 80 patients evaluated with dual-source, dual-energy CT

Radiology

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 256-266

  Delesalle, Marie Aurélie ^a   Pontana, François ^a   Duhamel, Alain ^a   Faivre, Jean Baptiste ^a   Flohr, Thomas ^b   Tacelli, Nunzia ^a   Remy, Jacques ^a   Remy Jardin, Martine ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Siemens Medical Solutions   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION ENERGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; THORAX CANCER; VIRTUAL MONOCHROMATIC SPECTRAL IMAGING;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84875421152     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12120195     Document Type: Article

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