Image quality from high-resolution CT of the lung: Comparison of axial scans and of sections reconstructed from volumetric data acquired using MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 602-607

  Studler, Ueli ^a   Gluecker, Thomas ^a   Bongartz, Georg ^a   Roth, Jakob ^a   Steinbrich, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUMETRY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27744452595     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.3.01850602     Document Type: Article

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