Volumetric measurements of pulmonary nodules at multi-row detector CT: In vivo reproducibility

European Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 86-92

  Wormanns, Dag ^a   Kohl, Gerhard ^b   Klotz, Ernst ^b   Marheine, Anke ^a   Beyer, Florian ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Diederich, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT Lung nodule; Image processing; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TISSUE SLICE;

ADULT; AGED; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0842345498     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-003-2132-0     Document Type: Article

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