Lung nodule detection in pediatric chest CT: Quantitative relationship between image quality and radiologist performance

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2609-2618

  Li, Xiang ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a   Barnhart, Huiman X ^a   Gaca, Ana Maria ^a   Hollingsworth, Caroline L ^a   Maxfield, Charles M ^a   Carrico, Caroline W T ^a   Colsher, James G ^a,b   Frush, Donald P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; diagnostic accuracy; dose; dose reduction; image perception; image quality; lesion simulation; noise simulation; optimization; receiver operating characteristic; ROC

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; PEDIATRICS; QUANTUM NOISE;

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSE; DOSE REDUCTION; IMAGE PERCEPTION; LESION SIMULATION; NOISE SIMULATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959536820     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3582975     Document Type: Article

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