Detection of liver metastases under 2 cm: Comparison of different acquisition protocols in four row multidetector-CT (MDCT)

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1881-1887

  Abdelmoumene, Amina ^a   Chevallier, Patrick ^a   Chalaron, Marc ^a   Schneider, Frédéric ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^b   Frascarolo, Phillipe ^a   Meuli, Reto ^a   Schnyder, Pierre ^a   Denys, Alban ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Liver metastases; Multidetector row

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VELOCITY; X RAY DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 24044466768     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-005-2741-x     Document Type: Article

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