Digital tomosynthesis in the detection of urolithiasis: Diagnostic performance and dosimetry compared with digital radiography with MDCT as the reference standard

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 161-167

  Mermuys, Koen ^a   De Geeter, Frank ^a   Bacher, Klaus ^b   Van De Moortele, Kris ^a   Coenegrachts, Kenneth ^a   Steyaert, Luc ^a   Casselman, Jan W ^a  

^a General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Calculi; CT; Digital radiography; Digital tomosynthesis; Kidney; Radiation dose; Ureter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; URETER STONE; UROLITHIASIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 77954744331     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3075     Document Type: Article

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