CT based volume measurement and estimation in cases of pericardial effusion

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 126-131

  Ebert, Lars C ^a,b   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^a,b   Ruder, Thomas D ^a,b   Hatch, Gary ^a   Thali, Michael J ^a   Germerott, Tanja ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac effusion; Post mortem CT; Segmentation; Virtopsy; Volume estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VOLUME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUTOPSY; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84858072230     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: 18787487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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