Protocols for Multislice CT

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bruening, Roland (Editor), Kuettner, Axel (Editor), Flohr, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.

This book provides structured up-to-date information on all routine protocols used for multislice (multidetector row) CT. The volume contains a detailed technical section and covers the prevailing investigations of the brain, neck, lungs and chest, abdomen with parenchymal organs and gastrointestina...

Table of Contents:

• Technical Principles and Applications of Multislice CT
• Future Perspectives of Multislice CT
• Dose Considerations and Radiation Protection Issues in Multislice CT
• Artifacts in MSCT
• CT of the Heart and Great Vessels: Protocols in Congenital Heart Disease Patients
• Contrast Medium Applications for Multislice CT
• Indication for PET-CT
• Acute Neurovascular Events: Bleeding and Ischemia Diagnosed by MSCT
• CTA of Intracranial Aneurysm
• Imaging of the Cerebral Veins and Sinuses with MS-CT
• Brain Perfusion
• Sinuses and Facial Skeleton
• Nasopharynx, Oropharynx, and Oral Cavity
• MDCT of the Hypopharynx and Larynx
• Multidetector CT-Diagnosis of Infectious Pulmonary Disease
• Parenchymal Changes of the Lung
• MSCT Imaging of Pulmonary Embolism
• Mediastinum, Pleura, and Chest Wall
• Thoracic Aorta
• Calcium Screening
• Coronary Imaging
• Functional Cardiac Imaging
• Bypass Imaging
• Imaging of Coronary Stents
• Coronary Imaging at High Heart Rates
• Diffuse Liver Disease
• Focal Liver Lesions
• MSCT Imaging of Biliary Tract Disease
• MSCT of the Upper Urinary Tract
• Pancreas and Retroperitoneal Space
• Gastrointestinal Tract
• CT Colonography
• Musculoskeletal Imaging
• Trauma Imaging
• CT-Guided Abscess Drainage
• CT-Guided Diagnostic Punctures
• CT-Guided Ablation Therapy
• Vertebroplasty.