Comparison of low dose with standard dose abdominal/pelvic multidetector CT in patients with stage 1 testicular cancer under surveillance

European Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1624-1630

  O'Malley, Martin E ^a   Chung, Peter ^a   Haider, Masoom ^a   Jang, Hyun Jung ^b   Jhaveri, Kartik ^a   Khalili, Korosh ^a   Panzarella, Tony ^a   Warde, Padraig ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CT; Dose; Image quality; Radiation; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SEMINOMA; TESTIS CANCER; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; TESTIS TUMOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954819249     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-009-1710-1     Document Type: Article

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