Children
It is recommended to use CARE Bolus in order to achieve optimal contrast enhancement.
Both start delay time and injection rate are
Note: these injector guidelines are based on an antecu- bital injection site. These guidelines may need to be adjusted if the site is more peripheral.
Needle Size (gauge) | Flow Rate (ml/sec.) |
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22 | 1.5 |
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20 | 2.0 – 3.0 |
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18 | 3.0 – 5.0 |
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Central lines and ports may need to be hand injected or power injected at a very low flow rate (1 ml/sec.).
PIC lines and 24 gauge (or smaller) lines are usually hand injected. All of these protocols should be decided on by your institution’s appropriate personnel.
8.For applications such as neonate or airway scanning, the low tube output at 80 kV can be used to further reduce the dose to the patient.
9.To further optimize MPR image quality we recom- mend that you reduce one or more of the following parameters: collimation, reconstruction increment and slice width for image reconstruction.
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