Safety margin assessment after radiofrequency ablation of the liver using registration of preprocedure and postprocedure CT images

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Kim, Kyung Won ^a   Lee, Jeong Min ^a   Klotz, Ernst ^b   Kim, Soo Jin ^a   Kim, Se Hyung ^a   Kim, Ji Young ^a   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Choi, Byung Ihn ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b CT Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Liver; Radiofrequency ablation (RFA); Registration; Safety margin

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SAFETY MARGIN; VALIDATION STUDY; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959614020     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5122     Document Type: Article

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