Investigating the relationship between virtual cystoscopy image quality and CT slice thickness

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1016, 2012, Pages 1112-1117

  Lalondrelle, Susan ^a   Sohaib, S A ^b   Castellano, I A ^b   Mears, D ^b   Huddart, R ^a   Khoo, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER WALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NOISE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; VIRTUAL CYSTOSCOPY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYSTOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864834125     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/99567374     Document Type: Article

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