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Fig. 1B. —Representative scans obtained at level that includes liver, spleen, aorta, and portal vein in a 51-year-old woman with cirrhosis before transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement. Regions of interest are drawn over liver, spleen, aorta (long arrow), and portal vein (short arrow). Inhomogeneous enhancement pattern of spleen (B and C) is normal finding at arterial phase and early portal venous phase and is caused by rapid injection of bolus contrast agent. Dynamic single-section arterial phase CT scan shows that aorta (long arrow), branches of hepatic artery (arrowhead), and splenic artery (curved arrow) are enhanced during hepatic arterial phase. Portal vein (short arrow) is not enhanced as result of early phase.