Clinical evaluation of pulmonary nodules with dual-exposure dual-energy subtraction chest radiography

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 391-397

  Uemura, Masahiko ^a   Miyagawa, Masao ^a   Yasuhara, Yoshifumi ^b   Murakami, Tadashi ^a   Ikura, Hirohiko ^a   Sakamoto, Kana ^a   Tagashira, Hiroyuki ^a   Arakawa, Kenji ^a   Mochizuki, Teruhito ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Ehime Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Diagnostic radiology; Dual energy subtraction; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 26644439790     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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