Radiofrequency ablation of liver metastases-software-assisted evaluation of the ablation zone in MDCT: Tumor-free follow-up versus local recurrent disease

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 297-306

  Keil, Sebastian ^a   Bruners, Philipp ^a,c   Schiffl, Katharina ^a   Sedlmair, Martin ^b   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Das, Marco ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated evaluation; Hepatic metastases; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT CANCER; THERAPY EFFECT; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953140271     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-009-9681-9     Document Type: Article

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