Single-exposure dual-energy subtraction chest radiography: Detection of pulmonary nodules and masses in clinical practice

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-31

  Szucs Farkas, Zsolt ^a   Patak, Michael A ^a   Yuksel Hatz, Seyran ^a   Ruder, Thomas ^a   Vock, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dual energy scanned projection radiography; Pulmonary coin lesion; Pulmonary neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOFT TISSUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38949108969     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0758-z     Document Type: Article

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