Comparison of quality of multiplanar reconstructions and direct coronal multidetector CT scans of the lung

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 875-879

  Honda, Osamu ^a   Johkoh, Takeshi ^a   Yamamoto, Shuji ^a   Koyama, Mitsuhiro ^a   Tomiyama, Noriyuki ^a   Kozuka, Takenori ^a   Hamada, Seiki ^a   Mihara, Naoki ^a   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a   Müller, Nestor L ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOPSY; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036783772     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.179.4.1790875     Document Type: Article

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