A Feasibility Study. Evaluation of Radiofrequency Ablation Therapy to Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Image Registration of Preoperative and Postoperative CT

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 986-994

  Fujioka, Chikako ^a   Horiguchi, Jun ^a   Ishifuro, Minoru ^a   Kakizawa, Hideaki ^b   Kiguchi, Masao ^a   Matsuura, Noriaki ^b   Hieda, Masashi ^b   Tachikake, Toshihiro ^b   Alam, Farzana ^b   Furukawa, Takashi ^a   Ito, Katsuhide ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Division of Medical Intelligence and Informatics   (Japan)

Author keywords

fusion images; hepatocellular carcinoma; image registration; Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIVER ARTERIOGRAPHY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745963370     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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