Multidetector CT of the lung: Image quality with garnet-based detectors

Radiology

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 944-954

  Masahiro, Yanagawa ^a   Noriyuki, Tomiyama ^a   Osamu, Honda ^a   Ayano, Kikuyama ^a   Hiromitsu, Sumikawa ^a   Atsuo, Inoue ^a   Kazunori, Tobino ^a   Mitsuihiro, Koyama ^a   Masayuki, Kudo ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GE HealthCare Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

CADAVER; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952735624     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10091010     Document Type: Article

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