Post-mortem virtual estimation of free abdominal blood volume

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2133-2136

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal blood volume; Post mortem CT; Segmentation; Virtopsy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLOOD VOLUME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VOLUME; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POST MORTEM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VOLUME; BLOOD VOLUME DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864688119     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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