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  title info:
    title: MDCT Protocols
    sub title: Whole Body and Emergencies
  name:
    name part: Laghi, Andrea.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 253 p. online resource.
  abstract: Multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) has become a fundamental imaging technique for the study of many anatomical districts in different clinical situations, as it provides a fast, reliable, and accurate simultaneous evaluation of different organs, including parenchyma, hollow viscera, vessels, and bony structures. It has also equipped the radiologist with the ability to explore areas that in the last decade were largely ignored by CT, especially the coronary arteries and the colon, and to limit invasive diagnostic tests (e.g., catheter angiography) to those cases in which interventional procedures are required. The examination quality and the consequent diagnostic accuracy of MDCT are the results of an optimized study technique, which nonetheless needs to be adapted to the particular clinical situation of the patient, while bearing in mind the radiation exposure. Another fundamental parameter in the optimization of MDCT is the protocol for the intravenous injection of iodinated contrast material; in these studies, multiple variables, some modifiable by the operator and others patient-dependent, must be considered based on the aims of maximizing arterial and venous enhancements whilst minimizing the dose of iodine injected, saving money, and increasing patient safety. Through the presentation of cases addressing different anatomical regions and various clinical indications, including emergency and neuro-imaging, this volume seeks to provide the general radiologist and trainee specialist with a guide to the main study protocols to be implemented in order to optimize examination quality and, consequently, facilitate the diagnostic process.
  table of contents: Technical Basis -- Introduction -- The Technology -- Contrast-Medium Administration -- Special Examinations -- Essential References -- Clinical Cases -- Neuro.-Thorax -- Abdomen.-Heart -- Vascular -- Emergency.
  note: edited by Andrea Laghi.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Emergency medicine
  subject:
    topic: Radiology
  subject:
    topic: Cardiology
  subject:
    topic: Gastroenterology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Diagnostic Radiology
  subject:
    topic: Cardiology
  subject:
    topic: Gastroenterology
  subject:
    topic: Emergency Medicine
  classification: R895-920
  classification: 616.0757
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9788847024038
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2403-8
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    record creation date: 120421
    record change date: 20151204191016.0
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