Computer-aided measurements of pulmonary emphysema in chest multidetector-row spiral computed tomography: Effect of image reconstruction parameters

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 899-904

  Behrendt, Florian F ^a,b   Das, Marco ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a   Kraus, Thomas ^b   Bakai, Annemarie ^c   Stanzel, Sven ^b   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a  

^a Department of Diagnostic Radiology ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary emphysema; Quantification, image reconstruction algorithms, analysis software

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS SOFTWARES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENTS OF; MULTI-DETECTORS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; QUANTIFICATION, IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM, ANALYSE SOFTWARE; SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMPHYSEMA VOLUME; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KERNEL GRADE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 62149127018     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e31815ade64     Document Type: Article

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