Is Lung Cancer Screening Possible with Digital Chest Tomosynthesis?

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Lung Cancer ManagementVol. 2, No. 5 EditorialIs lung cancer screening possible with digital chest tomosynthesis?Alberto Terzi & Luca BertolacciniAlberto TerziThoracic Surgery Unit, S. Croce City Hospital, Via Michele Coppino, 26-12100 Cuneo, ItalySearch for more papers by this author & Luca Bertolaccini* Author for correspondenceThoracic Surgery Unit, S. Croce City Hospital, Via Michele Coppino, 26-12100 Cuneo, Italy. Search for more papers by this authorEmail the corresponding author at luca.bertolaccini@gmail.comPublished Online:3 Oct 2013https://doi.org/10.2217/lmt.13.36AboutSectionsView ArticleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit View articleReferences1 Vallebona A. Axial transverse laminagraphy. Radiology55(2),271–273 (1950).Crossref, Medline, CAS, Google Scholar2 Dobbins JT III, Godfrey DJ. Digital x-ray tomosynthesis: current state of the art and clinical potentials. Phys. Med. Biol.48(19),R65–R106 (2003).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar3 Vikgren J, Zachrisson S, Svalkvist A et al. Comparison of chest tomosynthesis and chest radiography for detection of pulmonary nodules: human observer study of clinical cases. Radiology249(1),1034–1041 (2008).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar4 Gomi T, Nakajima M, Fujiwara H et al. Comparison between chest digital tomosynthesis and CT as a screening method to detect artificial pulmonary nodules: a phantom study. Br. J. Radiol.85(1017),e622–e629 (2012).Crossref, Medline, CAS, Google Scholar5 Zhao F, Zeng Y, Peng G et al. Experimental study of detection of nodules showing ground-glass opacity and radiation dose by using anthropomorphic chest phantom: digital tomosynthesis and multi detector CT. J. Comput. Assist. Tomogr.36(5),523–527 (2012).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar6 The National Lung Screening Trial Research Team. Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening. N. Engl. J. Med.365(5),395–409 (2011).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar7 Terzi A, Bertolaccini L, Viti A et al. Lung cancer detection with digital chest tomosynthesis: baseline results from the observational study SOS. J. Thorac. Oncol.8(6),685–692 (2013).Crossref, Medline, Google Scholar8 Wang J, Dobbin JT III, Li Q. Automated lung segmentation in digital chest tomosynthesis. Med. Phys.39(2),732–740 (2012).Crossref, Medline, Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 2, No. 5 Follow us on social media for the latest updates Metrics Downloaded 36 times History Published online 3 October 2013 Published in print October 2013 Information© Future Medicine LtdFinancial & competing interests disclosureStudy grant aided by Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo Foundation. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.PDF download