Semiautomated versus Manual Evaluation of Liver Metastases Treated by Radiofrequency Ablation

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-251

  Keil, Sebastian ^a   Bruners, Philipp ^a,b   Ohnsorge, Lutz ^a   Plumhans, Cedric ^a   Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Stanzel, Sven ^a   Sühling, Michael ^c   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Das, Marco ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b Helmholtz Institute   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOLOGIST; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETER ABLATION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 74549139089     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.10.024     Document Type: Article

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