A stereological study of MRI and the Cavalieri principle combined for diagnosis and monitoring of brain tumor volume

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1499-1502

  Sonmez, Osman Fikret ^a   Odaci, Ersan ^b   Bas, Orhan ^a   Colakoglu, Serdar ^c   Sahin, Bünyamin ^d   Bilgic, Sait ^d   Kaplan, Süleyman ^d  

^a RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DUZCE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain; Brain tumor volume; Cavalieri principle; MRI; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOLOGY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78049481215     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2010.03.044     Document Type: Article

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