Prediction of lymph node manifestations in malignant lymphoma: Significant role of volumetric compared with established metric lymph node analysis in multislice computed tomography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 564-569

  Puesken, Michael ^a   Buerke, Boris ^a   Gerss, Joachim ^a   Frisch, Barbara ^a   Beyer, Florian ^a   Weckesser, Matthias ^a   Seifarth, Harald ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Wessling, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; lymph nodes; malignant lymphoma; semiautomated segmentation; volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FORECASTING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS;

3-DIMENSIONAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CT; LONG AXIS; LYMPH NODE; MALIGNANT LYMPHOMAS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SEMI-AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; VOLUMETRICS;

VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 77955142771     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181db2901     Document Type: Article

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