Coronary artery calcification scoring in low-dose ungated CT screening for lung cancer: Interscan agreement

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1244-1249

  Jacobs, Peter C A ^a   Isgum, Ivana ^b   Gondrie, Martijn J A ^a   Mali, Willem P Th M ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^a   Van Der Graaf, Yolanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcification score; Interscan agreement; Low dose; Lung cancer screening; Ungated CT

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STANDARD;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952105432     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3047     Document Type: Article

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