Takeshi Nakaura

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1 Abdominal CT with low tube voltage: preliminary observations about radiation dose, contrast enhancement, image quality, and noise. Radiology 2005 2.21
2 Hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas: bolus tracking with a 40-detector CT scanner to time arterial phase imaging. Radiology 2007 1.59
3 Machine Learning to Predict the Rapid Growth of Small Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2020 1.39
4 Role of diffusion-weighted imaging in the diagnosis of gynecological diseases. Eur Radiol 2008 1.34
5 Association of pericardial fat accumulation rather than abdominal obesity with coronary atherosclerotic plaque formation in patients with suspected coronary artery disease. Atherosclerosis 2009 1.29
6 Lower tube voltage reduces contrast material and radiation doses on 16-MDCT aortography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2006 1.21
7 Hepatocellular carcinoma in patients weighing 70 kg or less: initial trial of compact-bolus dynamic CT with low-dose contrast material at 80 kVp. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2011 1.14
8 Pulmonary nodules: estimation of malignancy at thin-section helical CT--effect of computer-aided diagnosis on performance of radiologists. Radiology 2006 1.09
9 Comparison of standard- and low-tube voltage MDCT angiography in patients with peripheral arterial disease. Eur Radiol 2010 1.08
10 Evaluation of diffusion-weighted imaging for the differential diagnosis of poorly contrast-enhanced and T2-prolonged bone masses: Initial experience. J Magn Reson Imaging 2006 1.06
11 Ground-glass opacities on thin-section helical CT: differentiation between bronchioloalveolar carcinoma and atypical adenomatous hyperplasia. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008 0.99
12 Combined use of T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted 3-T MR imaging for differentiating uterine sarcomas from benign leiomyomas. Eur Radiol 2009 0.98
13 A hybrid iterative reconstruction algorithm that improves the image quality of low-tube-voltage coronary CT angiography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2012 0.98
14 A low tube voltage technique reduces the radiation dose at retrospective ECG-gated cardiac computed tomography for anatomical and functional analyses. Acad Radiol 2011 0.95
15 Pancreas: patient body weight tailored contrast material injection protocol versus fixed dose protocol at dynamic CT. Radiology 2007 0.91
16 Detection of nodules showing ground-glass opacity in the lungs at low-dose multidetector computed tomography: phantom and clinical study. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2009 0.91
17 Multidetector computed tomography evaluation of coronary plaque morphology in patients with stable angina. Heart Vessels 2010 0.91
18 Improvement of image quality at low-radiation dose and low-contrast material dose abdominal CT in patients with cirrhosis: intraindividual comparison of low tube voltage with iterative reconstruction algorithm and standard tube voltage. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2012 0.87
19 Contrast material injection protocol with the dose adjusted to the body surface area for MDCT aortography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2010 0.86
20 Indirect computed tomography venography with a low-tube-voltage technique: reduction in the radiation and contrast material dose--a prospective randomized study. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2011 0.85
21 Timing of the hepatic arterial phase at Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced hepatic dynamic MRI: comparison of the test-injection and the fixed-time delay method. J Magn Reson Imaging 2013 0.84
22 Subtracted 3D CT angiography for the evaluation of intracranial aneurysms in 256-slice multidetector CT: usefulness of the 80-kVp plus compact contrast medium bolus protocol. Eur Radiol 2013 0.83
23 Optimal dose and injection duration (injection rate) of contrast material for depiction of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas by multidetector CT. Radiat Med 2007 0.83
24 Effect of contrast injection protocols with dose adjusted to the estimated lean patient body weight on aortic enhancement at CT angiography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2009 0.83
25 Object-specific attenuation correction at SPECT/CT in thorax: optimization of respiratory protocol for image registration. Radiology 2005 0.82
26 Optimal contrast dose for depiction of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma at dynamic CT using 64-MDCT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008 0.82
27 Prediction of aortic peak enhancement in monophasic contrast injection protocols at multidetector CT: phantom and patient studies. Radiat Med 2007 0.81
28 Cardiac 16-MDCT for anatomic and functional analysis: assessment of a biphasic contrast injection protocol. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2006 0.80
29 Low-dose MDCT urography: feasibility study of low-tube-voltage technique and adaptive noise reduction filter. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2009 0.79
30 Uniform vascular enhancement of lower-extremity artery on CT angiography using test-injection monitoring at the central level of the scan range: a simulation flow phantom study with clinical correlation. Acad Radiol 2010 0.79
31 Low-Contrast and Low-Radiation Dose Protocol in Cardiac Computed Tomography: Usefulness of Low Tube Voltage and Knowledge-Based Iterative Model Reconstruction Algorithm. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2016 0.79
32 Contrast enhancement during hepatic computed tomography: effect of total body weight, height, body mass index, blood volume, lean body weight, and body surface area. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2013 0.78
33 Novel connecting tube for saline chaser in contrast-enhanced CT: the effect of spiral flow of saline on contrast enhancement. Eur Radiol 2013 0.78
34 Compact-bolus dynamic CT protocol with a test bolus technique in 64-MDCT coronary angiography: comparison of fixed injection rate and duration protocol. Jpn J Radiol 2012 0.77
35 Chronological evaluation of liver enhancement in patients with chronic liver disease at Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced 3-T MR imaging: does liver function correlate with enhancement? Jpn J Radiol 2011 0.77
36 Characterization of adrenal lesions using chemical shift MRI: comparison between 1.5 Tesla and two echo time pair selection at 3.0 Tesla MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2011 0.77
37 Contrast enhancement for whole-body screening using multidetector row helical CT: comparison between uniphasic and biphasic injection protocols. Radiat Med 2004 0.76
38 Comparison of fusion imaging using a combined SPECT/CT system and intra-arterial CT: assessment of drug distribution by an implantable port system in patients undergoing hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2006 0.76
39 Low-contrast dose protection protocol for diagnostic computed tomography in patients at high-risk for contrast-induced nephropathy. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2013 0.76
40 Novel contrast-injection protocol for coronary computed tomographic angiography: contrast-injection protocol customized according to the patient's time-attenuation response. Heart Vessels 2013 0.75
41 Incidence of myocardial bridging observed on MDCT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2006 0.75
42 MR diagnosis of vertebral artery dissection: value of 3D time-of-flight and true fast imaging with steady-state precession fusion imaging. Insights Imaging 2012 0.75
43 Cardiac helical CT involving a low-radiation-dose protocol with a 100-kVp setting: Usefulness of hybrid iterative reconstruction and display preset optimization. Medicine (Baltimore) 2016 0.75
44 Mutidetector-row CT and quantitative gated SPECT for the assessment of left ventricular function in small hearts: the cardiac physical phantom study using a combined SPECT/CT system. Eur Radiol 2006 0.75
45 Extracapsular extension of prostate cancer: diagnostic value of combined multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and isovoxel 3-dimensional T2-weighted imaging at 1.5 T. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2015 0.75
46 Delivering the Saline Chaser Via a Spiral Flow-Generating Tube Improves Arterial Enhancement for Computed Tomography Angiography of the Lower Extremities. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2015 0.75
47 Usefulness of a Low Tube Voltage: Knowledge-Based Iterative Model Reconstruction Algorithm for Computed Tomography Venography. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2017 0.75
48 Attenuation correction using asymmetric fanbeam transmission CT on two-head SPECT system. Ann Nucl Med 2004 0.75
49 Attenuation correction using combination of a parallel hole collimator and an uncollimated non-uniform line array source. Ann Nucl Med 2004 0.75
50 Fat Suppressed Contrast-Enhanced T1-Weighted Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3T: Comparison of Image Quality Between Spectrally Adiabatic Iversion Recovery and the Multiecho Dixon Technique in Imaging of the Prostate. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2017 0.75
51 Comparison of the Timing of Hepatic Arterial Phase and Image Quality Using Test-Bolus and Bolus-Tracking Techniques in Gadolinium-Ethoxybenzyl-Diethylenetriamine Pentaacetic Acid-Enhanced Hepatic Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2017 0.75
52 Can CT angiography reconstructed from CT perfusion source data on a 320-section volume CT scanner replace conventional CT angiography for the evaluation of intracranial arteries? Jpn J Radiol 2015 0.75
53 Paradoxical Effect of Cardiac Output on Arterial Enhancement at Computed Tomography: Does Cardiac Output Reduction Simply Result in an Increase in Aortic Peak Enhancement? J Comput Assist Tomogr 2017 0.75
54 Aortic and Hepatic Contrast Enhancement During Hepatic-Arterial and Portal Venous Phase Computed Tomography Scanning: Multivariate Linear Regression Analysis Using Age, Sex, Total Body Weight, Height, and Cardiac Output. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2016 0.75
55 Iterative Reconstruction Designed for Brain CT: A Correlative Study With Filtered Back Projection for the Diagnosis of Acute Ischemic Stroke. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2017 0.75
56 Identification and characterization of focal ground-glass opacity in the lungs by high-resolution CT using thin-section multidetector helical CT: experimental study using a chest CT phantom. Radiat Med 2008 0.75