Pulmonary nodule volume: Effects of reconstruction parameters on automated measurements - A phantom study

Radiology

Volumn 247, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 400-408

  Ravenel, James G ^a   Leue, William M ^c   Nietert, Paul J ^b   Miller, James V ^c   Taylor, Katherine K ^a   Silvestri, Gerard A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; IMAGING SYSTEM; KERNEL METHOD; LUNG NODULE; LUNG VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44449158674     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2472070868     Document Type: Article

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