Detection of the normal appendix with low-dose unenhanced CT: Use of the sliding slab averaging technique

Radiology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 780-787

  Joo, Seung Moon ^a,b   Kyoung, Ho Lee ^a,b   Young, Hoon Kim ^a,b   So, Yeon Kim ^a,b   Kim, Kyuseok ^a   Kil, Joong Kim ^b   Kim, Bohyoung ^c  

^a Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCNEMAR TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SLIDING SLAB AVERAGING TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67049132894     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2513081617     Document Type: Article

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