Primary interpretation of thoracic MDCT images using coronal reformations

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1500-1508

  Kwan, Sharon W ^a   Partik, Bernhard L ^b   Zinck, Steven E ^c   Chan, Frandics P ^a   Kee, Stephen T ^a   Leung, Ann N ^a   Voracek, Martin ^d   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Diagnostic Center Brigittenau   (Austria)

^c EPIC Imaging   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM DISEASE; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MDCT; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; PLEURA DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX DISEASE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644816287     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1335     Document Type: Article

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