Comparison between coronal reformatted images and direct coronal CT images of the swine lung specimen: Assessment of image quality with 64-detector row CT

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 966, 2008, Pages 463-467

  Choi, E J ^a   Oh, Y W ^a   Ham, S Y ^a   Lee, K Y ^a   Kang, E Y ^a  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LUNG; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; LUNG; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 46849106711     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/63217190     Document Type: Article

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