Accuracy and reproducibility of blood clot burden quantification with pulmonary CT angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 516-523

  Furlan, Alessandro ^a   Patil, Amol ^a   Park, Bumwoo ^a   Chang, Chung Chou H ^b,c   Roberts, Mark S ^b,c   Bae, Kyongtae T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clot burden; CT angiography; Pulmonary angiography; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOLUMETRY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 79952260546     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4603     Document Type: Article

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