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• Coronary stent patency: dual-energy multidetector CT assessment in a pilot study with anthropomorphic phantom.

  PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate, by optimizing image acquisition and introducing alternative image postprocessing techniques, dual-energy multidete…

  Authors: Daniel T Boll, Elmar M Merkle, Erik K Paulson, Thorsten R Fleiter

  Source: Radiology. 2008 Jun

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• Adrenal nodules at FDG PET/CT in patients known to have or suspected of having lung cancer: a proposal for an efficient diagnostic algorithm.

  PURPOSE: To develop an algorithm to maximize the diagnostic yield of positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) by using defined atte…

  Authors: Matthew J Brady, John Thomas, Terence Z Wong, Kendra M Franklin, Lisa M Ho, Erik K Paulson

  Source: Radiology. 2009 Feb

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• Prospective Double-Blinded Study of Abdominal-Pelvic Computed Tomography Guided by the Region of Tenderness: Estimation of Detection of Acute Pathology and Radiation Exposure Reduction.

  STUDY OBJECTIVE: Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly used for emergency department (ED) patients with abdominal tenderness. CT-related radiation …

  Authors: Joshua S Broder, Caroline L Hollingsworth, Chad M Miller, Jennifer L Meyer, Erik K Paulson

  Source: Annals of emergency medicine. 2010 Jan 12

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• Focal cystic high-attenuation lesions: characterization in renal phantom by using photon-counting spectral CT--improved differentiation of lesion composition.

  PURPOSE: To evaluate the capability of spectral computed tomography (CT) to improve the characterization of cystic high-attenuation lesions in a renal…

  Authors: Daniel T Boll, Neil A Patil, Erik K Paulson, Elmar M Merkle, Rendon C Nelson, Sebastian T Schindera, Ewald Roessl, Gerhard Martens, Roland Proksa, Thorsten R Fleiter,…

  Source: Radiology. 2010 Jan

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• Renal stone assessment with dual-energy multidetector CT and advanced postprocessing techniques: improved characterization of renal stone composition--pilot study.

  PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate the capability of noninvasive, simultaneous dual-energy (DE) multidetector computed tomography (CT) to improve char…

  Authors: Daniel T Boll, Neil A Patil, Erik K Paulson, Elmar M Merkle, W Neal Simmons, Sean A Pierre, Glenn M Preminger

  Source: Radiology. 2009 Mar

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• Calcified vascular plaque specimens: assessment with cardiac dual-energy multidetector CT in anthropomorphically moving heart phantom.

  PURPOSE: To evaluate whether dual-energy multidetector computed tomography (CT) with image postprocessing techniques enhances accuracy of calcified pl…

  Authors: Daniel T Boll, Elmar M Merkle, Erik K Paulson, Rizvan A Mirza, Thorsten R Fleiter

  Source: Radiology. 2008 Oct

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• Hypervascular liver tumors: low tube voltage, high tube current multidetector CT during late hepatic arterial phase for detection--initial clinical experience.

  PURPOSE: To intraindividually compare a low tube voltage (80 kVp), high tube current computed tomographic (CT) technique with a standard CT protocol (…

  Authors: Daniele Marin, Rendon C Nelson, Ehsan Samei, Erik K Paulson, Lisa M Ho, Daniel T Boll, David M DeLong, Terry T Yoshizumi, Sebastian T Schindera

  Source: Radiology. 2009 Jun

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• Hypervascular liver tumors: low tube voltage, high tube current multi-detector row CT for enhanced detection--phantom study.

  PURPOSE: To prospectively evaluate, for the depiction of simulated hypervascular liver lesions in a phantom, the effect of a low tube voltage, high tu…

  Authors: Sebastian T Schindera, Rendon C Nelson, Srinivasan Mukundan, Erik K Paulson, Tracy A Jaffe, Chad M Miller, David M DeLong, Keigo Kawaji, Terry T Yoshizumi, Ehsan Samei

  Source: Radiology. 2008 Jan

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• Multi-detector row CT of the small bowel: peak enhancement temporal window--initial experience.

  PURPOSE: To prospectively determine quantitatively and qualitatively the timing of maximal enhancement of the normal small-bowel wall by using contras…

  Authors: Sebastian T Schindera, Rendon C Nelson, David M DeLong, Tracy A Jaffe, Elmar M Merkle, Erik K Paulson, John Thomas

  Source: Radiology. 2007 May

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• MDCT of acute appendicitis: value of coronal reformations.

  Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of abdominal pain requiring urgent surgery in the United States. The clinical diagnosis can be difficult i…

  Authors: Amy M Neville, Erik K Paulson

  Source: Abdominal imaging. 2009 Jan-Feb

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