Abstract:
:Lung cancer screening computed tomographies (CTs) differ from traditional chest CT scans in that they are performed at very low radiation doses, which allow the detection of small nodules but which have a much higher noise content than would be acceptable in a diagnostic chest CT. The technical parameters require a great deal of attention on the part of the user, because inappropriate settings could result in either excess radiation dose to the large population of screened individuals or in low-quality images with impaired nodule detectability. Both situations undermine the main goal of the screening program, which is to detect lung nodules using as low a radiation dose as can reasonably be achieved. Once an image has been obtained, there are unique interpretive issues that must be addressed mainly because of the very high noise content of the images and the high prevalence of incidental findings in the chest unrelated to the sought-after pulmonary nodules.
journal_name
J Thorac Imagingjournal_title
Journal of thoracic imagingauthors
Donnelly EFdoi
10.1097/RTI.0b013e3182568019subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-07-01 00:00:00pages
224-9issue
4eissn
0883-5993issn
1536-0237pii
00005382-201207000-00007journal_volume
27pub_type
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