Open AccessAorto‐Peripheral MDCT Angiography: Implications for Contrast Medium Delivery
Author(s) -
Wildberger J. E.,
Mahnken A. H.,
Seidensticker P. R.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
imaging decisions mri
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1617-0830
pISSN - 1433-3317
DOI - 10.1111/j.1617-0830.2007.00109.x
Subject(s) - medicine , iodine , angiography , contrast medium , peripheral , bolus (digestion) , contrast (vision) , radiology , nuclear medicine , homogeneous , surgery , materials science , physics , artificial intelligence , computer science , metallurgy , thermodynamics
Summary The overall iodine load is the key determinant for the imaging of solid organs. For CTA studies, however, injection duration and particularly the iodine delivery rate (IDR; given in g iodine/s) are the determining factors for the quality of the bolus. An optimized contrast injection is mandatory to achieve high quality CT scans with homogeneous attenuation and high contrast throughout the entire data‐set.