Performance of ultralow-dose CT with iterative reconstruction in lung cancer screening: limiting radiation exposure to the equivalent of conventional chest X-ray imaging

European Radiology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3643-3652

  Huber, Adrian ^a,b   Landau, Julia ^a   Ebner, Lukas ^a,c   Bütikofer, Yanik ^a   Leidolt, Lars ^a   Brela, Barbara ^a   May, Michelle ^a   Heverhagen, Johannes ^a   Christe, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Diagnostic performance with low radiation dosage; Lung adenocarcinoma; Pulmonary nodule detection; Ultralow dose acquisition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGING PHANTOM; LUNG TUMOR; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84955311025     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-015-4192-3     Document Type: Article

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