Quantitative Assessment of Tissue Perfusion Using MDCT: Comparison of Colorectal Cancer and Skeletal Muscle Measurement Reproducibility
Vicky Goh1,
Steve Halligan2,3,
Jo-Ann Hugill2 and
Clive I. Bartram2
1 Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mt. Vernon Hospital, Northwood, United
Kingdom.
2 Intestinal Imaging Centre, St. Mark's Hospital, Middlesex, HA1 3UJ, United
Kingdom.
3 Present address: Specialist Radiology, University College Hospital, 235 Euston
Road, London, NW1 2BU, United Kingdom.

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Fig. 1A 84-year-old woman. Axial image shows T3 rectal tumor. Region
of interest (ROI) has been placed within left external iliac artery to define
arterial input and drawn around tumor to define tissue ROI.
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Fig. 1B 84-year-old woman. Corresponding graph of tissue attenuation
(H, y axis) plotted against time (seconds, x axis) shows
arterial and tumor attenuation change with time; peak arterial enhancement is
higher than tumor enhancement (420 H vs 108 H).
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Fig. 1C 84-year-old woman. Blood volume (C), blood flow
(D), mean transit time (E), and permeability (F) maps
corresponding to A.
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Fig. 1D 84-year-old woman. Blood volume (C), blood flow
(D), mean transit time (E), and permeability (F) maps
corresponding to A.
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Fig. 1E 84-year-old woman. Blood volume (C), blood flow
(D), mean transit time (E), and permeability (F) maps
corresponding to A.
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Fig. 1F 84-year-old woman. Blood volume (C), blood flow
(D), mean transit time (E), and permeability (F) maps
corresponding to A.
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