Axial oblique CT to assess femoral anteversion

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1230-1233

  Jarrett, Delma Y ^a   Oliveira, Amy M ^b   Zou, Kelly H ^c   Snyder, Brian D ^a   Kleinman, Paul K ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial oblique imaging; CT; Femoral anteversion; Femoral neck axis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CADAVER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMORAL ANTEVERSION; FEMUR; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY CT;

CADAVER; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951957072     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3702     Document Type: Article

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