Imaging obese patients: Problems and solutions

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 630-646

  Carucci, Laura R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Fluoroscopy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Obesity; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDEMIC; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; MORBID OBESITY; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; UNITED STATES;

ARTIFACTS; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY WEIGHT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OBESITY, MORBID; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84882255506     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-012-9959-2     Document Type: Article

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