Revised protocol for whole-body CT for multi-trauma patients applying triphasic injection followed by a single-pass scan on a 64-MDCT

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 668-675

  Yaniv, G ^a,b   Portnoy, O ^a,b   Simon, D ^a,b   Bader, S ^a   Konen, E ^a,b   Guranda, L ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DESCENDING AORTA; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INJURY SCALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; IODINE; IOPAMIDOL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878288481     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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