Abdominal virtual ultrasonographic images reconstructed by multi-detector row helical computed tomography

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 312-317

  Hirooka, Masashi ^a   Iuchi, Hidehito ^a   Kurose, Kiyotaka ^a   Kumagi, Teru ^a   Horiike, Norio ^a   Onji, Morikazu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Multi detector row CT; Virtual ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

HEPATOBILIARY DISEASES; LESIONS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION (RFA); ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 12444315143     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2004.03.026     Document Type: Article

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