The challenge of the solitary pulmonary nodule: Diagnostic assessment with multislice spiral CT

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 156-161

  Marten, Katharina ^a   Grabbe, Eckhardt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic CT; Growth rate; Multi slice CT; Solitary pulmonary nodule; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PULMONARY DISEASES;

PULMONARY NODULES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD FLOW; CANCER SCREENING; COLLIMATOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; GROWTH RATE; HEMOPERFUSION; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0037406012     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(02)00541-7     Document Type: Article

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