Semiautomated MIP images created directly on 16-section multidetector CT console for evaluation of living renal donors

Radiology

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 583-590

  Singh, Anand Kumar ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a   Kagay, Christopher R ^a   Kalva, Sanjeeva P ^a   Joshi, Mukta C ^b   Elias, Nahel ^a   Kawai, Tatsuo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34447558255     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2442060909     Document Type: Article

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