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Urinary calculi: improved detection and characterization with thin-slice multidetector CT.

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Ketelslegers, Etienne [UCL] Van Beers, Bernard [UCL]

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of reconstructed slice thickness on the detection and characterization of human urinary calculi on a multidetector helical CT scanner. Nineteen human urinary calculi of various chemical composition measuring 1.0-3.7 mm were embedded into agar in a chamber of a nylon body phantom. The phantom was imaged with a four detector-row CT scanner. The number of detected calculi increased as the reconstructed slice thickness decreased. Measured diameters and density of the visible calculi decreased as the slice thickness increased. The results of the present study support the use of thin reconstructed slices to detect and characterize urinary calculi.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Evaluation Studies, In Vitro, Journal Article
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2006
Journal information "European radiology" - Vol. 16, no. 1, p. 161-5 (2006)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0938-7994
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - MD/RAIM - Département de radiologie et d'imagerie médicale
MESH Subject Humans ; Observer Variation ; Phantoms, Imaging ; Radiographic Image Enhancement - methods ; Tomography, Spiral Computed - instrumentation - methods ; Urinary Calculi - diagnosis
Keywords Computed tomography ; Reconstructed slice thickness ; Kidney ; Calculi ; Ureter
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Bibliographic reference Ketelslegers, Etienne ; Van Beers, Bernard. Urinary calculi: improved detection and characterization with thin-slice multidetector CT.. In: European radiology, Vol. 16, no. 1, p. 161-5 (2006)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/10223