Decreased detection of hypovascular liver tumors with MDCT in obese patients: A phantom study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Schindera, Sebastian T ^a   Torrente, Jaled Charimo ^a   Ruder, Thomas D ^a   Hoppe, Hanno ^a   Marin, Daniele ^b   Nelson, Rendon C ^b   Szucs Farkas, Zsolt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Image quality; Liver tumors; Noise filter; Obese patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTRAST; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER TUMOR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; OBESITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OBESITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960516323     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5351     Document Type: Article

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