Accuracy of emphysema quantification performed with reduced numbers of CT sections

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 585-591

  Pilgram, Thomas K ^a   Quirk, James D ^a   Bierhals, Andrew J ^a   Yusen, Roger D ^b   Lefrak, Stephen S ^b   Cooper, Joel D ^c   Gierada, David S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emphysema; Quantitative CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SAMPLING ERROR; SMOKING;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77749301757     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2709     Document Type: Article

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