Characterization of mesothelioma and tissues present in contrast-enhanced thoracic CT scans

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 942-947

  Corson, Neal ^a   Sensakovic, William F ^a   Straus, Christopher ^a   Starkey, Adam ^a   Armato III, Samuel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

computer tomography (CT); Hounsfield units (HU); mesothelioma; quantitative imaging; tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE; SCANNING; TUMORS;

CONTRAST-ENHANCED; HOUNSFIELD UNITS; MESOTHELIOMA; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RECONSTRUCTION FILTERS; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SPATIAL PROXIMITY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79551661010     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3537610     Document Type: Article

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