Detection of pulmonary nodules at multirow-detector CT: Effectiveness of double reading to improve sensitivity at standard-dose and low-dose chest CT

European Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-22

  Wormanns, Dag ^a   Ludwig, Karl ^a,b   Beyer, Florian ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Diederich, Stefan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MARIEN HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary nodule; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 12144261858     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-004-2527-6     Document Type: Article

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