Pulmonary nodules: Contrast-enhanced volumetric variation at different CT scan delays

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-154

  Rampinelli, Cristiano ^a   Raimondi, Sara ^a   Padrenostro, Mauro ^b   De Fiori, Elvio ^a   Meroni, Stefano ^b   Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contrast material; CT; CT scan delay; Pulmonary nodule; Volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDITY; VOLUMETRY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954699133     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3212     Document Type: Article

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