An Airway Phantom to Standardize CT Acquisition in Multicenter Clinical Trials

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Robinson, Terry E ^a   Long, Frederick R ^a   Raman, Pavi ^a   Saha, Paramita ^a   Emond, M J ^a   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^a   Raman, Raghav ^a   Brody, Alan S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway phantom; bias; CF; chest MDCT; effective dose

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG FIBROSIS; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARDIZATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 68049104319     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

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