Pulmonary nodule volumetric measurement variability as a function of CT slice thickness and nodule morphology

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 306-312

  Petrou, Myria ^a   Quint, Leslie E ^a   Nan, Bin ^b   Baker, Laurence H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest; Lung disease; MDCT; Oncologic imaging; Pulmonary nodules; Volumetric evaluation and measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SLICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846527920     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.05.1063     Document Type: Article

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