Dual-energy CT of head and neck cancer: Average weighting of low-and high-voltage acquisitions to improve lesion delineation and image quality-initial clinical experience

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 306-311

  Tawfik, Ahmed M ^a,b   Kerl, J Matthias ^a   Bauer, Ralf W ^a   Nour Eldin, Nour Eldin ^a   Naguib, Nagy N N ^a   Vogl, Thomas J ^a   MacK, Martin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

average weighting; dual energy CT; head and neck; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST;

EID: 84859922538     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31821e3062     Document Type: Article

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