Volume-doubling time of pulmonary nodules with ground glass opacity at multidetector CT. Assessment with computer-aided three-dimensional volumetry

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-69

  Oda, Seitaro ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Murao, Kohei ^c   Ozawa, Akio ^c   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a   Yanaga, Yumi ^a   Kawanaka, Koichi ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground glass opacity; Multidetector CT; Volume doubling time; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUND GLASS OPACITY LUND NODULE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR GROWTH; VOLUMETRY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 78649945280     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.08.022     Document Type: Article

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