Early small-bowel ischemia: Dual-energy CT improves conspicuity compared with conventional CT in a swine model

Radiology

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 119-126

  Potretzke, Theodora A ^a   Brace, Christopher L ^a,b   Lubner, Meghan G ^a   Sampson, Lisa A ^a   Willey, Bridgett J ^a   Lee, Fred T ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; IOHEXOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPH; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE PERFUSION; MESENTERIC ARTERY OCCLUSION; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SWINE; ANIMAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ISCHEMIA; PIG; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; IOHEXOL; ISCHEMIA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84926500924     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14140875     Document Type: Article

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