Stereology versus planimetry to estimate the volume of malignant liver lesions on MR imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1011-1016

  Mazonakis, Michael ^a   Damilakis, John ^b   Mantatzis, Michael ^b   Prassopoulos, Panos ^c   Maris, Thomas ^a   Varveris, Haris ^b   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Liver tumor; MRI; Planimetry; Stereology; Tumor volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STEREOLOGY; TUMOR VOLUME; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 3342996897     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2004.02.012     Document Type: Article

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