Pulmonary nodules with ground-glass opacity can be reliably measured with low-dose techniques regardless of iterative reconstruction: Results of a phantom study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 204, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1242-1247

  Siegelman, Jenifer W ^a   Supanich, Mark P ^b   Gavrielides, Marios A ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ground glass opacity; Lung cancer; Pulmonary nodule; Quantitative imaging; Volume measurement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; LUNG NODULE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELIABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84937701179     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.13820     Document Type: Article

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