Volume CT: State-of-the-art reporting

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 528-534

  Parrish, Frank John ^a  

^a MIA Victoria ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

CT; Postprocessing; Reporting; Volume imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; SCREENING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548276914     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2426     Document Type: Review

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