Influence of Slice Thickness on Diagnoses of Pulmonary Nodules Using Low-dose CT. Potential Dependence of Detection and Diagnostic Agreement on Features and Location of Nodule

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 594-604

  Sinsuat, Marodina ^a   Saita, Shinsuke ^a   Kawata, Yoshiki ^a   Niki, Noboru ^a   Ohmatsu, Hironobu ^b   Tsuchida, Takaaki ^c   Kakinuma, Ryutaro ^d   Kusumoto, Masahiko ^c   Eguchi, Kenji ^e   Kaneko, Masahiro ^c   Morikubo, Hiroshi ^f   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Tochigi Public Health Service Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agreement; Computed tomography; Detection; Pulmonary nodules; Slice thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SLICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CELL COUNT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79953316819     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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