• AJR Am J Roentgenol · Nov 2017

    Split-Bolus Injection Producing Simultaneous Late Arterial and Portal Venous Phases in CT Enterography: Preliminary Results.

    • Johannes Boos, Jieming Fang, Christina M Chingkoe, Michele Perillo, Martin Smith, Vassilios Raptopoulos, and Olga R Brook.
    • 1 Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215.
    • AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Nov 1; 209 (5): 1056-1063.

    ObjectiveThe purpose of this article is to evaluate the image quality and added value of split-bolus contrast agent injection combining late arterial and portal venous phases compared with single-bolus contrast agent injection late arterial phase CT enterography.Materials And MethodsConsecutive patients who underwent CT enterography before and after implementation of a single-bolus CT enterography protocol were included. Attenuation and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) were assessed by ROI measurements of the bowel wall and arterial and venous structures. Subjective enhancement of the bowel wall (1, arterial; 2, mucosal; 3, transmural; 4, transmural with mucosal hyperenhancement) and bowel abnormalities were assessed by two independent readers. MR enterography examinations, endoscopy reports, and surgery reports within 30 days after CT enterography were used to produce a composite outcome.ResultsSixty-six patients were included in our study: 33 (mean [± SD] age, 46.0 ± 19.8 years) who underwent split-bolus CT enterography and 33 (mean age, 49.9 ± 19.0 years) who underwent single-bolus CT enterography. Bowel wall attenuation and CNR were higher for split-bolus CT enterography than for single-bolus CT enterography at 120 kVp (enhancement, 98.7 ± 23.1 HU vs 85.1 ± 23.3 HU; CNR, 6.4 ± 2.5 vs 4.4 ± 2.3; p < 0.01). Subjective ratings of bowel wall enhancement were higher with the split-bolus CT enterography than the single-bolus CT enterography (2.6 ± 0.8 vs 2.3 ± 0.6; p < 0.001). Split-bolus CT enterography led to a higher detection rate of mucosal hyperenhancement than did single-bolus CT enterography in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease (100.0% [7/7; 95% CI, 59.0-100.0%] vs 33.3% [2/6; 95% CI, 4.3-77.7%]; p = 0.02), whereas both protocols had a specificity of 100.0% (9/9).ConclusionSplit-bolus CT enterography led to improved CNR (47%) compared with single-bolus CT enterography and significantly increased the detection rate of mucosal hyperenhancement in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease.

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