Estimated radiation dose associated with low-dose chest CT of average-size participants in the national lung screening trial

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1165-1169

  Larke, Frederick J ^a   Kruger, Randell L ^b   Cagnon, Christopher H ^c   Flynn, Michael J ^d   McNitt Gray, Michael M ^e   Wu, Xizeng ^f   Judy, Phillip F ^g   Cody, Dianna D ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest CT; CT; Low dose CT; National lung screening trial; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCREENING; THORAX EXAMINATION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054952663     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6533     Document Type: Article

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