Utility of low-dose helical CT as a second step after plain chest radiography for mass screening for lung cancer

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-180

  Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Tominaga, Keigo ^a   Hirose, Takashi ^a   Sasagawa, Michizoh ^a   Yokoyama, Kohki ^b   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^b  

^a TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chest computed tomography; Helical scan; Low dose image; Lung cancer; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030789933     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005382-199707000-00002     Document Type: Article

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