Zone of transition: A potential source of error in tumor volume estimation

Radiology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 633-639

  Zhang, Lijuan ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^a   Henschke, Claudia I ^a   Jirapatnakul, Artit C ^b   Reeves, Anthony P ^b   Carter, Darryl ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955127060     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10090924     Document Type: Article

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