Optimizing contrast media injection protocols in state-of-the art computed tomographic angiography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 161-167

  Lell, Michael M ^a   Jos, Gregor ^b   Korporaal, Johannes Georg ^c   Mahnken, Andreas Horst ^d   Flohr, Thomas G ^c   Uder, Michael ^a   Pietsch, Hubertus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b BAYER PHARMA AG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomographic angiography; contrast delivery; contrast media; injection rate; iodine concentration; iodine delivery rate; low kilovolt; multidetector spiral computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEART RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PORCINE MODEL; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RENAL ARTERY; X RAY TUBE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; DOSE RESPONSE; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; PIG; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; IOHEXOL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84923651153     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000119     Document Type: Article

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