Derivation for relating calcification and size in small pulmonary nodules

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-6

  Yankelevitz, David F ^a   Henschke, Claudia I ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Partial volume; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RELATIVE DENSITY; THICKNESS;

CALCINOSIS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031983133     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(97)00048-X     Document Type: Article

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