Comparison of Semiautomated and Manual Measurements for Simulated Hypo- and Hyper-attenuating Hepatic Tumors on MDCT. Effect of Slice Thickness and Reconstruction Increment on Their Accuracy

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 626-633

  Joo, Ijin ^a   Kim, Se Hyung ^a   Lee, Jae Young ^a   Lee, Jeong Min ^a   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Choi, Byung Ihn ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Comparison study; Liver; MDCT; Phantom; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LIVER TUMOR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AUTOMATION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953331914     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.12.013     Document Type: Article

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