Polyp detection with MDCT: A phantom-based evaluation of the impact of dose and spatial resolution

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1181-1188

  Özgün, Abdülvahit ^a   Rollvén, Erik ^a   Blomqvist, Lennart ^a   Bremmer, Staffan ^a   Odh, Richard ^a   Fransson, Annette ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIOGRAPHY;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 18244401657     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.4.01841181     Document Type: Article

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