Volumetric measurement of pulmonary nodules at low-dose chest CT: Effect of reconstruction setting on measurement variability

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1180-1187

  Wang, Ying ^a   De Bock, Geertruida H ^a   Van Klaveren, Rob J ^b   Van Ooyen, Peter ^a   Tukker, Wim ^a   Zhao, Yingru ^a   Dorrius, Monique D ^a   Proença, Rozemarijn Vliegenthart ^a   Post, Wendy J ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multi detector computed tomography; Pulmonary nodules; Reconstruction kernel; Section thickness; Volume measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KERNEL METHOD; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952091413     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1634-9     Document Type: Article

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