Visualization of normal pulmonary fissures on sagittal multiplanar reconstruction MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 389-397

  Takahashi, Koji ^a,b   Thompson, Brad ^b   Stanford, William ^b   Sato, Yutaka ^b   Nagasawa, Kenichi ^a   Sato, Hiroaki ^a   Kubota, Makoto ^a   Kashiba, Ayako ^a   Sugimori, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest; Lung; Lung cancer; MDCT; Pleura; Pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG FISSURE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG SLICE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746587372     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.0147     Document Type: Article

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