Defining the Intra-subject Variability of Whole-lung CT Densitometry in Two Lung Cancer Screening Trials

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1403-1411

  Diciotti, Stefano ^a   Sverzellati, Nicola ^b   Kauczor, Hans Ulrich ^c   Lombardo, Simone ^a   Falchini, Massimo ^a   Favilli, Giuditta ^a   Macconi, Letizia ^a   Kuhnigk, Jan Martin ^d   Marchianò, Alfonso ^e   Pastorino, Ugo ^e   Zompatori, Maurizio ^f   Mascalchi, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT; Lung densitometry; Pulmonary emphysema; Volume correction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMOKING;

AGED; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053612858     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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