Inter-and intrascanner variability of pulmonary nodule volumetry on low-dose 64-row CT: An anthropomorphic phantom study

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1029, 2013, Pages

  Xie, X ^a   Willemink, M J ^b   Zhao, Y ^a   De Jong, P A ^b   Van Ooijen, P M A ^a   Oudkerk, M ^a   Greuter, M J W ^a   Vliegenthart, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG NODULE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84882948679     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20130160     Document Type: Article

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