Measuring thyroid gland volume: Should we change the correction factor?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 234-236

  Shabana, Wael ^a   Peeters, Els ^a   De Maeseneer, Michel ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Correction factor; MDCT screening; Thyroid volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; THYROID GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644834299     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.0816     Document Type: Article

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