Ultralow-dose chest computed tomography for pulmonary nodule detection: First performance evaluation of single energy scanning with spectral shaping

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 465-473

  Gordic, Sonja ^a   Morsbach, Fabian ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b,c   Allmendinger, Thomas ^b   Flohr, Thomas ^b,d   Husarik, Daniela ^a   Baumueller, Stephan ^a   Raupach, Rainer ^b   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^e   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

computed tomography; image reconstruction; low dose; lung; radiation dosage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84902172225     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000037     Document Type: Article

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