Dose exposure in the ITALUNG trial of lung cancer screening with low-dose CT

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 85, Issue 1016, 2012, Pages 1134-1139

  Mascalchi, Mario ^a,b   Mazzoni, L N ^a   Falchini, M ^a   Belli, G ^c   Picozzi, G ^d   Merlini, V ^a   Vella, A ^e   Diciotti, S ^a   Falaschi, F ^f   Lopes Pegna, A ^c   Paci, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Institute for Cancer Study and Prevention   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d PISTOIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCREENING;

AGED; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864853041     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/20711289     Document Type: Article

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