Effectiveness of automated quantification of pulmonary perfused blood Volume Using dual-energy CTPA for the severity assessment of acute pulmonary embolism

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 563-569

  Meinel, Felix G ^a   Graef, Anita ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^a   Thieme, Sven F ^a   Schwarz, Florian ^a   Sommer, Wieland H ^a   Neurohr, Claus ^b   Kupatt, Christian ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Johnson, Thorsten R C ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Internal Medicine V   (Germany)

Author keywords

CAIPIRINHA; Dixon; Dynamic imaging; Kidney; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging; Time resolved imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; IOPROMIDE; TROPONIN; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG BLOOD VOLUME; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULMONARY PERFUSED BLOOD VOLUME; QANADLI OBSTRUCTION SCORE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX DISEASE;

EID: 84880252696     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3182879482     Document Type: Article

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