Basis of estimating pleural effusion size on CT scan: Reasonable grouping of volume percentage

Chest

Volumn 143, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1839-

  Hu, Yijie ^a   Zhong, Qianjin ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEMITHORAX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LETTER; LUNG VOLUME; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84878614741     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-0376     Document Type: Letter

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