Distinguishing enhancing from nonenhancing renal masses with dual-source dual-energy CT: Iodine quantification versus standard enhancement measurements

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2288-2295

  Ascenti, Giorgio ^a   Mileto, Achille ^a   Krauss, Bernhard ^b   Gaeta, Michele ^a   Blandino, Alfredo ^a   Scribano, Emanuele ^a   Settineri, Nicola ^a   Mazziotti, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Dual energy CT; Iodine quantification; Renal masses; Standard enhancement measurements

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODINE; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880332561     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-013-2811-4     Document Type: Article

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