Whole-body low-dose multidetector row-CT in the diagnosis of multiple myeloma: An alternative to conventional radiography

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 289-297

  Horger, Marius ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Bross Bach, Ulrike ^a   Vonthein, Reinhard ^a   Trabold, Tobias ^a   Heuschmid, Martin ^a   Pfannenberg, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axial and multiplanar reformatted images; Effective dose; Low dose MDCT; Multiple myeloma staging; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; DIAGNOSIS; FRACTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; X RAYS;

FRACTURE RISK; MULTIPLANAR REFORMATTED (MPR) SCANS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA (MM); X RAY IMAGING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGIST; RISK ASSESSMENT; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; X RAY;

EID: 17144395881     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2004.04.015     Document Type: Article

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