Dose reduction for semi-automated volumetry of hepatic metastasis in MDCT studies

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-81

  Keil, Sebastian ^a   Plumhans, Cedric ^a   Nagy, Istvan A ^a   Schiffl, Katharina ^a   Soza, Grzegorz ^b   Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,c   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Das, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated volumetry; Dose reduction; Hepatic metastasis; MDCT

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 74949114753     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181cd194e     Document Type: Article

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