Significance of sagittal reformations in routine thoracic and abdominal multislice CT studies for detecting osteoporotic fractures and other spine abnormalities

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1696-1702

  Müller, Dirk ^a   Bauer, Jan S ^a   Zeile, Martin ^a   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a   Link, Thomas M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Osteoporosis; Routine MDCT; Sagittal reformations; Spine; Vertebral fractures

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAGITTAL REFORMATION; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE METASTASIS; THORAX SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48949115096     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-0920-2     Document Type: Article

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