Pulmonary nodules: Growth rate assessment in patients by using serial CT and three-dimensional volumetry

Radiology

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 662-671

  Ko, Jane P ^a   Berman, Erika J ^a   Kaur, Manmeen ^a   Babb, James S ^a   Bomsztyk, Elan ^a   Greenberg, Alissa K ^b   Naidich, David P ^a   Rusinek, Henry ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857385844     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11100878     Document Type: Article

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