Spectral CT with metal artifacts reduction software for improvement of tumor visibility in the vicinity of gold fiducial markers

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 696-705

  Brook, Olga R ^a   Gourtsoyianni, Sofia ^a   Brook, Alexander ^a   Mahadevan, Anand ^a   Wilcox, Carol ^a   Raptopoulos, Vassilios ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA METASTASIS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; VISIBILITY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862489319     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111170     Document Type: Article

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