Abnormal vessel tortuosity as a marker of treatment response of malignant gliomas: Preliminary report

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 577-584

  Bullitt, Elizabeth ^a   Ewend, Matthew G ^a   Aylward, Stephen ^a   Lin, Weili ^a   Gerig, Guido ^b   Joshi, Sarang ^a   Jung, Inkyung ^c   Muller, Keith ^c   Smith, J Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer analysis; GBM; MRA; Tortuosity; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD VESSEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION;

EID: 11144299056     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460400300607     Document Type: Article

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