Diagnostic accuracy of state-of-The-art MDCT scanners without gantry tilt in patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3947-3952

  Bannas, Peter ^a   Habermann, Christian R ^a   Jung, Caroline ^a   Bley, Thorsten A ^a   Ittrich, Harald ^a   Adam, Gerhard ^a   Koops, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artifact; CT; Gantry tilt; MDCT; Oral and oropharyngeal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864135919     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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