Effect of slice thickness on liver lesion detection and characterisation by multidetector CT

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 188-193

  Smith, J T ^a   Hawkins, R M ^a   Guthrie, J A ^a   Wilson, D J ^a   Arnold, P M ^a   Boyes, S ^a   Robinson, P J ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detection; Liver; MDCT; Metastases; Slice; Thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SLICE; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953528450     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9485.2010.02157.x     Document Type: Article

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