Size quantification of liver metastases in patients undergoing cancer treatment: Reproducibility of one-, two-, and three-dimensional measurements determined with spiral CT

Radiology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 671-675

  Van Hoe, Lieven ^a   Van Cutsem, Eric ^a   Vergote, Ignace ^a   Baert, Albert L ^a   Bellon, Erwin ^a   Dupont, Patrick ^b   Marchal, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), helical; Computed tomography (CT), three dimensional; Liver neoplasms, secondary; Liver, CT

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE IOXITALAMATE PLUS SODIUM IOXITALAMATE;

ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031059383     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.202.3.9051014     Document Type: Article

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