Intra- and interobserver agreement and impact of arterial input selection in perfusion CT measurements performed in squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1107-1115

  Petralia, Giuseppe ^a   Preda, L ^a   Raimondi, S ^a   D'Andrea, G ^b   Summers, P ^a   Giugliano, G ^a   Chiesa, F ^a   Bellomi, M ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MALE; PERMEABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67449123587     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1540     Document Type: Article

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