Identification and characterization of focal ground-glass opacity in the lungs by high-resolution CT using thin-section multidetector helical CT: Experimental study using a chest CT phantom

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-27

  Liu, Duo ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^a   Funama, Yoshinori ^b   Oda, Seitaro ^a   Nakaura, Takeshi ^a   Yanaga, Yumi ^a   Hatemura, Masahiro ^c   Kawanaka, Koichi ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground glass opacity (GGO); High resolution CT; Lung cancer; Phantom

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG CANCER; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 43249122162     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0190-y     Document Type: Article

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