Lower-dose CT urography (CTU) with iterative reconstruction technique in children - Initial experience and examination protocol

Polish Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue , 2014, Pages 137-144

  Bombiński, Przemysław ^a   Warchoł, Stanisław ^a   Brzewski, Michał ^a   Biejat, Agnieszka ^a   Dudek Warchoł, Teresa ^a   Krzemień, Grazyna ^a   Szmigielska, Agnieszka ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Child; Diagnostic Techniques, Urological; Multidetector Computed Tomography; Pediatrics; Radiology; Urography

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY UROGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; FOLLOW UP; HORSESHOE KIDNEY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY TUMOR; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROURETERECTOMY; NEWBORN; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; URETER DUPLICATION; URETEROCELE; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UROGRAPHY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; X RAY; XANTHOGRANULOMATOUS PYELONEPHRITIS;

EID: 84902174227     PISSN: 1733134X     EISSN: 18990967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/PJR.890729     Document Type: Article

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