Scan length optimization for pulmonary embolism at CT angiography: Analysis based on the three-dimensional spatial distribution of 370 emboli in 100 patients

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 405-411

  Atalay, M K ^a   Walle, N L ^a   Grand, D J ^a   Mayo Smith, W W ^a   Cronan, J J ^a   Egglin, T K ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC CAVITY;

AGED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952995498     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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