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Trial reportRadiological physics and technology2019

Computed tomography pulmonary angiography and venography with a low dose of contrast medium.

Jun Nakane, Norinari Honda, Kazuhiro Tsuchiya

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Trial report in Radiological physics and technology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jun NakaneRadiology Service, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, 1981 Kamoda, Kawagoe, Saitama, 350-8550, Japan. jun_n@saitama-med.ac.jp.
Norinari HondaRadiology Service, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Saitama Sekishinkai Hospital, 2-37-20, Irumagawa, Sayama, Saitama, 350-1305, Japan.
Kazuhiro TsuchiyaDepartment of Radiology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, 1981 Kamoda, Kawagoe, Saitama, 350-8550, Japan.
Social Insurance Saitama Chuo Hospital · JPSaitama Prefecture · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The authors developed a method to ensure sufficient opacification of pulmonary vasculature for separate depiction of arteries and veins in three-dimensional form with a small dose of contrast medium utilizing a test injection to determine optimal timing of computed tomography (CT) scanning. The dose was determined by a simulation based on a pharmacokinetic model. The contrast medium was administered at a rate of 5.0 mL/s for 3 s, followed by helical scanning at the timing determined by a dynamic CT scanning following the test injection. Images of 20 consecutive patients acquired with a 64-row CT scanner were evaluated. Quality of vessel depiction was assessed on the basis of the following: HU values at the main pulmonary artery (MPA) and left atrium (LA), distance between the pleural surface and the distal end of the pulmonary vessels on three-dimensional CT pulmonary arteriography and venography (3D-CTPAV), and subjective visual assessment of quality of the 3D-CTPAV images. Time to generate the 3D-CTPAV images was recorded. The mean ± standard deviation (SD) of the HU values at MPA/LA and the distances to the pleural surface for pulmonary arteries/veins were 448.0 ± 123.1/277.3 ± 60.85 HU and 9.21 ± 3.60/10.7 ± 5.45 mm, respectively. The image quality was visually rated as excellent for all of the patients. The mean time ± SD to generate 3D-CTPAV images was 13.6 ± 6.7 min. In conclusion, three-dimensional images of the pulmonary vasculature can be created using 21 mL (including 6 mL for the test injection) of contrast medium.

Indexed as

Computed Tomography AngiographyContrast MediaPhlebographyRadiation DosageAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMaleMiddle AgedPulmonary ArteryContrast Media3D reconstructionComputed tomography angiographyImage processingPulmonary arteryPulmonary veins

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PMID30536083
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