Preoperative liver volumetry: How does the slice thickness influence the multidetector computed tomography- and magnetic resonance-liver volume measurements?

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 390-397

  Reiner, Caecilia S ^a   Karlo, Christoph ^a   Petrowsky, Henrik ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Weishaupt, Dominik ^a   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging; Slice thickness; Volume measurements

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RESONANCE; TITRATION;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER VOLUME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNERS; SLICE THICKNESS; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER; LIVER SLICE; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUMETRY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER RESECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67649097023     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181806c29     Document Type: Article

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