Reproducibility of computer-aided volumetry of artificial small pulmonary nodules in ex vivo porcine lungs

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-35

  Bolte, Hendrik ^a   Riedel, Christian ^a   Jahnke, Thomas ^a   Inan, Nevin ^a   Freitag, Sandra ^a   Kohl, Gerhard ^b   Heller, Martin ^a   Biederer, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Lung nodule; Phantom; Reproducibility; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LUNG; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; VOLUMETRY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645075495     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rli.0000191366.05586.4d     Document Type: Article

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