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Optimal vessel opacification remains one of the most crucial but difficult aspects of multiple detector-row CT angiography (MD-CTA). With each new generation of MDCT scanners, acquisition times have become, and will become substantially shorter. Thus, controlling the level and time-course of arterial enhancement and correct synchronizing CT acquisition relative to arterial enhancement has become more difficult and “less forgiving.”
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Fleischmann, D. (2004). Contrast Medium Delivery for Vascular MDCT: Principles and Rationale. In: Reiser, M.F., Takahashi, M., Modic, M., Becker, C.R. (eds) Multislice CT. Diagnostic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05379-9_3
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