Specific Anatomic Region	Liver
Application	Differential diagnosis of liver masses
Author	Hoe LV et al.
Reference Source	AJR 1997; 168:1185-1192
Scanner Used	Siemens Somatom Plus 4
Injection Rate	2.5-3ml/sec
Contrast Volume and Type	125-150cc of Telebrix (300-380mg/ml)
Area Scanned	Entire liver
Scan Delay	25sec arterial / 80sec venous
Length of Spiral (time)	Approx 30sec
Slice Thickness	5mm
Table Speed/Pitch	Pitch 1-1.5
Reconstruction Interval	3mm intervals
3D Technique Used	None
Comment: Scans in both the arterial and portal vein phases improve the radiologist's ability to differentiate hepatoma and FNH from other tumors is the authors' conclusion.