Ultra-low-dose chest CT in patients with neutropenic fever and hematologic malignancy: Image quality and its diagnostic performance

Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 393-402

  Kim, Hae Jin ^a   Park, So Young ^a,b   Lee, Ho Yun ^a   Lee, Kyung Soo ^a   Shin, Kyung Eun ^a   Moon, Jung Won ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Hallym University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Febrile neutropenia; Hematologic neoplasms; Pulmonary infection; Ultra low dose CT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG MYCOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; ULTRA LOW DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84907934228     PISSN: 1598-2998     EISSN: 2005-9256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4143/crt.2013.132     Document Type: Article

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