Quantification of pleural effusion on CT by simple measurement

Biomedical Papers

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 107-111

  Hazlinger, Martin ^a   Ctvrtlik, Filip ^a   Langova, Katerina ^a   Herman, Miroslav ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chest; CT; Effusion; Pleura; Volume

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PLEURA EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84897465627     PISSN: 12138118     EISSN: 18047521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2012.042     Document Type: Article

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