Renal cyst pseudoenhancement: Influence of multidetector CT reconstruction algorithm and scanner type in phantom model

Radiology

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 767-775

  Birnbaum, Bernard A ^a   Hindman, Nicole ^a   Lee, Julie ^a,b   Babb, James S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY CYST; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT CARE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548058717     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2443061537     Document Type: Article

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