Quality control in longitudinal studies with computed tomographic densitometry of the lungs

Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 929-933

  Stoel, Berend C ^a   Bode, Fred ^b   Rames, Alexis ^c   Soliman, Sherif ^c   Reiber, Johan H C ^a   Stolk, Jan ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

^c F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Densitometry; Pulmonary emphysema; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENSITOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY TUBE;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; QUALITY CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57349154048     PISSN: 15463222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/pats.200804-039QC     Document Type: Article

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