Computed tomography liver volumetry using 3-dimensional image data in living donor liver transplantation: Effects of the slice thickness on the volume calculation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1427-1436

  Hori, Masatoshi ^a,b   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Epstein, Mark L ^a   Baron, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455192774     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22419     Document Type: Article

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