Exploring variability in CT characterization of tumors: A preliminary phantom study

Translational Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 88-93

  Zhao, Binsheng ^a   Tan, Yongqiang ^a   Tsai, Wei Yann ^b   Schwartz, Lawrence H ^a   Lu, Lin ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; LUNG LESION; MEASUREMENT; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THICKNESS; THORAX; TUMOR DENSITY; TUMOR SHAPE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84902489272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19365233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1593/tlo.13865     Document Type: Article

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