CT volumetry of artificial pulmonary nodules using an ex vivo lung phantom: Influence of exposure parameters and iterative reconstruction on reproducibility

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1577-1583

  Wielpütz, Mark O ^a,b   Lederlin, Mathieu ^c,d   Wroblewski, Jacek ^a,b   Dinkel, Julien ^b,d,e   Eichinger, Monika ^b,d,f   Biederer, Jürgen ^a,b   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^a,b   Puderbach, Michael ^b,d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b German Center for Lung Research   (Germany)

^c BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Lung cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; EX VIVO STUDY; FOLLOW UP; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG NODULE; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 84881150819     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2013.04.035     Document Type: Article

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