Accuracy of the CT numbers of simulated lung nodules imaged with multi-detector CT scanners

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3006-3017

  Goodsitt, Mitchell M ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Way, Ted W ^a   Larson, Sandra C ^a   Christodoulou, Emmanuel G ^a   Kim, Jeomsoon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Lung nodule; Phantoms

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; HARDENING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; TISSUE;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; LUNG NODULE; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SCATTER CORRECTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; X-RAY BEAM HARDENINGS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; WATER;

ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LUNG NODULE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; THORAX;

EID: 33746592052     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2219332     Document Type: Article

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