Virtual laryngoscopy: A noninvasive tool for the assessment of laryngeal tumor extent

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1026-1030

  Yan, Yuling ^a   Luo, Shouhua ^b   McWhorter, Andrew ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Larynx; Reconstruction; Segmentation; Virtual laryngoscope

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX; LARYNX TUMOR; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOCAL CORD; VOLUNTEER;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGOSCOPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 34249884535     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31804f812f     Document Type: Article

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