Quantification of pleural effusion from single area measurements on CT

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 285-289

  Veljkovic, Branislav ^a   Franckenberg, Sabine ^b   Hatch, Gary M ^c   Bucher, Matthias ^b   Schwendener, Nicole ^b,d   Ampanozi, Garyfalia ^b   Thali, Michael J ^b   Ruder, Thomas D ^b  

^a Kantonsspital Baselland ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chest CT; Emergency radiology; Pleural effusion; Postmortem CT; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURAL EFFUSION ESTIMATE; PLEURAL FLUID VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SINGLE AREA MEASUREMENT; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880834638     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-013-1115-y     Document Type: Article

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