New diagnostic imaging of gastointestinal tumors: A preliminary study of three-dimensional tumor structure and volumetry

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2935-2942

  Kikuchi, Shiro ^a   Kida, Mitsuhiro ^b   Kobayashi, Kiyonori ^b   Yano, Takeshi ^a   Sakuramoto, Shinichi ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   Kubota, Katsumi ^b   Isobe, Yoshinori ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D structure; Computed tomography; Diagnosis; Endoscopic ultrasonography; Gastrointestinal tumor; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TUMOR; STOMACH TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22944446793     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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