Main description:

"MDCT: From Protocols to Practice" tackles contemporary and topical issues in MDCT technology and applications. As an updated edition of MDCT: A Practical Approach, this volume offers new content as well as revised chapters from the previous volume. New chapters discuss important topics such as imaging of children and obese subjects, the use of contrast medium in pregnant women, coronary MDCT angiography, and PET/CT in abdominal and pelvic malignancies. Furthermore an Appendix with over 50 updated MDCT scanning protocols completes this publication. The book emphasizes the practical aspects of MDCT, making it an invaluable source of information for radiologists, residents, medical physicists, and radiology technologists in everyday clinical practice.

Contents:

SECTION I Physics and Techniques of MDCT.- 1 A Practical Approach to MDCT.- 2 Principles of Contrast Medium Delivery and Scan Timing in MDCT.- 3 Contrast Media Safety and Managing At-Risk Patients: Update 2007.- 4 MDCT Radiation Dose: Recent Advances.- 5 Dual-Source CT: Practical Aspects of Techniques and Applications.- 6 Contrast Considerations in Pregnancy.- 7 MDCT and Obesity.- 8 3-D Post-processing: Principles and Practical Applications.- SECTION II MDCT of the Abdomen.- 9 Dual-Phase Liver MDCT.- 10 Hepatobiliary Imaging by MDCT.- 11 Soft Organ MDCT Imaging: Pancreas and Spleen.- 12 Mesenteric and Renal CT Angiography.- 13 Multi-detector Computed Tomography in the Gastrointestinal System.- 14 Multi-detector Computed Tomography Urography.- 15 PET/CT in Abdominal and Pelvic Malagnancies: Principle and Practices.- SECTION III MDCT of the Cardiovascular System.- 16 Imaging Protocols for Cardiac CT.- 17 MDCT Angiography of the Thoracic Aorta.- 18 Pulmonary Embolism Imaging with MDCT.- 19 MDCT Angiography of Peripheral Arterial Disease.-20 Coronary CTA in Acute Chest Pain.- 21 Coronary CTA for Stent Evaluation.- SECTION IV MDCT of Head and Neck.- 22 CT Angiography of the Neck and Brain.- 23 MDCT Perfusion in Acute Stroke.- SECTION V MDCT of Trauma.- 24 MDCT of Abdominal Trauma 25 Role of MDCT in the Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Trauma.- SECTION VI Pediatric MDCT.- 26 MDCT in Children: Scan Techniques and Contrast Issues.- Appendix MDCT Protocols