Flat panel detector-based volumetric CT: Prototype evaluation with volumetry of small artificial nodules in a pulmonary phantom

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 156-163

  Marten, Katharina ^a   Funke, Matthias ^b   Engelke, Christoph ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flat panel detector CT; Follow up; Multislice CT; Nodule volumetry; Pulmonary nodules; Volumetric CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FOLLOW UP; LUNG NODULE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRIC COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3342880848     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rti.0000131591.12777.a8     Document Type: Article

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