Bronchial wall thickness: Appropriate window settings for thin-section CT and radiologic-anatomic correlation

Radiology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 831-836

  Bankier, Alexander A ^a   Fleischmann, Dominik ^a   Mallek, Reinhold ^a   Windisch, Alfred ^b   Winkelbauer, Friedrich W ^a   Kontrus, Manfred ^a   Havelec, Lieselotte ^c   Herold, Christian J ^a   Hübsch, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bronchi, diseases; Computed tomography (CT), technology; Computed tomography (CT), thin section; Lung, CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRONCHUS DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029950128     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.199.3.8638013     Document Type: Article

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