Comparison of flat-panel-detector-based CT and multidetector-row CT in automated volumetry of pulmonary nodules using an anthropomorphic chest phantom

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 981, 2009, Pages 716-723

  Marten, Katharina ^a   Dullin, C ^a   Machann, W ^b   Schmid, J S ^a   Das, M ^c   Hermann, K P ^b   Engelke, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC CHEST PHANTOM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLAT PANEL DETECTOR BASED COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG NODULE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; RADIOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349122559     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/40733553     Document Type: Article

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