Spiral CT of pulmonary nodules: Interobsever variation in assessment of lesion size

European Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 710-713

  Wormanns, D ^a   Diederich, S ^a   Lentschig, M G ^a   Winter, F ^a   Heindel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Diagnostic errors; Observer variation; Pulmonary coin lesion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG NODULE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CALIBRATION; CICATRIX; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034072817     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300050990     Document Type: Article

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