Computer-assisted lung nodule volumetry from multi-detector row CT: Influence of image reconstruction parameters

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 106-113

  Honda, Osamu ^a   Sumikawa, Hiromitsu ^a   Johkoh, Takeshi ^a   Tomiyama, Noriyuki ^a   Mihara, Naoki ^a   Inoue, Atsuo ^a   Tsubamoto, Mitsuko ^a   Natsag, Javzandulam ^a   Hamada, Seiki ^a   Nakamura, Hironobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic nodule volumetry; CT; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PULMONARY DISEASES; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATIC NODULE VOLUMETRY; LUNGS; NON OVERLAPPING RECONSTRUCTION; PULMONARY NODULES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947122052     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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