Renal cyst pseudoenhancement at 16- and 64-dector row MDCT

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 520-525

  Sai, Victor ^a   Rakow Penner, Rebecca ^a   Yeh, Benjamin M ^a   Coakley, Fergus V ^a   Westphalen, Antonio C ^a   Webb, Emma M ^a   Wang, Zhen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Pseudoenhancement; Renal cyst

Indexed keywords

CT; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; MDCT IMAGES; MULTI DETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES (MDCT); PSEUDOENHANCEMENT; RENAL CYSTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY CYST; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAN FRANCISCO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876699764     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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