Digital tomosynthesis of the chest for lung nodule detection: Interim sensitivity results from an ongoing NIH-sponsored trial

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2554-2557

  Dobbins III, James T ^a   McAdams, H Page ^b   Song, Jae Woo ^a,c   Li, Christina M ^b   Godfrey, Devon J ^a,b   DeLong, David M ^a   Paik, Sang Hyun ^a,d   Martinez Jimenez, Santiago ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Pulmonary nodules; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CESIUM IODIDE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; MATRIX INVERSIONS; PULMONARY NODULES; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 44349192079     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2937277     Document Type: Article

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