Chest imaging. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors: David A. Lynch, Jonathan H. Chung.
• Other Names: Lynch, David A; Chung, Jonathan H
• Contents: Front Cover; Chest Imaging; Copyright; Contributors; Contents; CME Page; Clinics in Chest Medicine; Preface; Erratum; Approach to Chest Computed Tomography; Key points; Introduction: definitions and nature of the problem; Imaging techniques; Basic Physics of Computed Tomography; Scan Protocol; Patient Preparation, Positioning, and Scan Execution; Postprocessing; 2-Dimensional multiplanar reformatting; Maximum intensity projection; Minimum intensity projection; Three-dimensional volume rendering; Imaging features and differential diagnosis: reviewing chest computed tomography. Review of the "Scout" TopogramLines, tubes, and other support apparatus; Pathologic abnormality in organs not fully included in the scan range; Findings at the "edge of the examination"; Mediastinum; Heart; Cardiac chambers; Myocardium; Coronary arteries; Cardiac valves; Pericardium; Large Thoracic Vessels; Aorta and arch vessels; Pulmonary arteries; Major thoracic veins; Thoracic Lymph Nodes; Large and Small Airways; Lungs: Overall Approach; Normal lung; Increase in lung opacity; Decrease in lung opacity; Mosaic attenuation; Spatial distribution of disease; Lung volumes. Lungs: Findings at High-Resolution Chest Computed TomographyNodules; Linear/reticular opacities and honeycombing; Pleura; Soft Tissues and Bones; Pearls and pitfalls: technical considerations and artifacts; Slice Thickness and Volume Averaging; Motion Artifact; Inadequate Inspiration or Expiration; Problems with the Contrast Bolus; Noise and Beam-Hardening Artifact; Current controversies; Radiation Dose Concerns and Dose Reduction; Summary; References; Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening for Lung Cancer; Key points; Introduction; The evidence for screening. Setting up a lung cancer screening clinicKey Personnel; Who Should Be Screened?; Shared Decision Making; Risks and Benefits of Low-Dose Computed Tomography for Lung Cancer Screening; Performing the Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening Examination; Findings on low-dose computed tomographic screening examinations; Lung Nodules; Incidental Findings; Emphysema/Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Smoking-Related Interstitial Lung Disease; Coronary Artery Calcification; Extrapulmonary Malignancy. Understanding the low-dose computed tomographic report: the American College of Radiology Lung CT Screening Reporting and D ... Financial issues; Summary; References; Imaging the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule; Key points; Introduction; Definitions and differential diagnosis; Imaging techniques for nodule evaluation; Chest Radiography; Computed Tomography; Computed tomography imaging features; Nodule attenuation; Nodule morphology; Nodule size and growth; Additional Computed Tomography Imaging Techniques; Positron Emission Tomography Imaging; Nodule Biopsy; Management considerations; Summary.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia, Pennsylvani : Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (265 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 617.540754; Chest -- Radiography; Diagnosis, Radioscopic; Chest -- Diseases -- Diagnosis; MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General; Chest -- Diseases -- Diagnosis; Chest -- Radiography; Diagnosis, Radioscopic; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780323388818; 0323388817
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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