Small irregular pulmonary nodules in low-dose CT: Observer detection sensitivity and volumetry accuracy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Xie, Xueqian ^a   Willemink, Martin J ^b   De Jong, Pim A ^b   Van Ooijen, Peter M A ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a   Greuter, Marcel J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT; Imaging phantoms; Lung neoplasms; Mass screening; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL;

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG NODULE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84896711728     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.10830     Document Type: Article

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