Effects of CT Section Thickness and Reconstruction Kernel on Emphysema Quantification. Relationship to the Magnitude of the CT Emphysema Index

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 146-156

  Gierada, David S ^a   Bierhals, Andrew J ^a   Choong, Cliff K ^b   Bartel, Seth T ^a   Ritter, Jon H ^b   Das, Nitin A ^b   Hong, Cheng ^a   Pilgram, Thomas K ^a   Bae, Kyongtae T ^a   Whiting, Bruce R ^a   Woods, Jason C ^c   Hogg, James C ^d   Lutey, Barbara A ^b   Battafarano, Richard J ^b   Cooper, Joel D ^b   Meyers, Bryan F ^b   Patterson, G Alexander ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

computed tomography; Emphysema; histology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; THICKNESS;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73049095694     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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