Quantitative CT: Technique dependence of volume estimation on pulmonary nodules

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1335-1348

  Chen, Baiyu ^a   Barnhart, Huiman ^b   Richard, Samuel ^a,b,c   Colsher, James ^b   Amurao, Maxwell ^b,d   Samei, Ehsan ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CARESTREAM HEALTH INC   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEST PHANTOM; CURRENT ESTIMATION; GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS; IMAGING PARAMETERS; IRREGULAR SHAPE; LUNG NODULE; PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION; PULMONARY NODULES; QUANTITATIVE CT; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; RECONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS; SIZE ESTIMATION; SLICE THICKNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VOLUME; VOLUME ESTIMATIONS; VOLUME QUANTIFICATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

POLYPROPYLENE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYPROPYLENES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857587615     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/5/1335     Document Type: Article

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