Low-dose CT: Technique, reading methods and image interpretation

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 548-556

  Rampinelli, Cristiano ^a   Origgi, Daniela ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Low dose CT; Lung cancer; Screening

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW;

HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84874500634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2012.0049     Document Type: Review

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