CT volumetry of the skeletal tissues

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3796-3803

  Brindle, James M ^a   Trindade, A Alexandre ^b   Pichardo, Jose C ^a   Myers, Scott L ^a   Shah, Amish P ^c   Bolch, Wesley E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando ^*  (United States)

^c M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^d University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

CT volumetry; Manual segmentation; Organ volume estimates; Spongiosa volume

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPLASTY; BONE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ERRORS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; TISSUE; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

MANUAL SEGMENTATION; NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE PIPES; SPONGIOSA VOLUME; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY; VOLUME ESTIMATES; VOLUMETRY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; ERROR; FEMUR HEAD; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRABECULAR BONE; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 33749414023     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2337272     Document Type: Article

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