All Outputs (3)

Effective dose and effective risk from post-SPECT imaging of the lumbar spine (2016)
Journal Article
Tootell, A., McEntee, M., Szczepura, K., & Hogg, P. (2016). Effective dose and effective risk from post-SPECT imaging of the lumbar spine. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, 47(3), 267-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmir.2016.04.012

Purpose
Planar bone scans play an important role in the staging and monitoring of malignancy and metastases. Metastases in the lumbar spine are associated with significant morbidity, therefore accurate diagnosis is essential. Supplementary imaging... Read More about Effective dose and effective risk from post-SPECT imaging of the lumbar spine.

Validated novel software to measure the conspicuity index of lesions in DICOM images (2016)
Journal Article
Szczepura, K., & Manning, D. (2016). Validated novel software to measure the conspicuity index of lesions in DICOM images. Proceedings of SPIE, 9787, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2216211

Description of purpose
A novel software programme and associated Excel spreadsheet has been developed to provide an objective measure of the expected visual detectability of focal abnormalities within DICOM images.
Methodology
ROIs are drawn ar... Read More about Validated novel software to measure the conspicuity index of lesions in DICOM images.

Effect of reconstruction methods and x-ray tube current-time product on nodule detection in an anthropomorphic thorax phantom : a crossed-modality JAFROC observer study (2016)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., Chakraborty, D., Szczepura, K., Tootell, A., Vamvakas, I., Manning, D., & Hogg, P. (2016). Effect of reconstruction methods and x-ray tube current-time product on nodule detection in an anthropomorphic thorax phantom : a crossed-modality JAFROC observer study. Medical Physics, 43(3), 1265-1274. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4941017

Purpose: To evaluate nodule detection in an anthropomorphic chest phantom in computed tomography (CT) images reconstructed with adaptive iterative dose reduction 3D (AIDR3D) and filtered back projection (FBP) over a range of tube current-time product... Read More about Effect of reconstruction methods and x-ray tube current-time product on nodule detection in an anthropomorphic thorax phantom : a crossed-modality JAFROC observer study.