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. 2017 Feb 24;90(1071):20160625. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20160625

Table 3.

Missed lesions and false-positive lesions at 0.25, 0.4 and 0.8 mGy with SafeCT (MedicVision®, Tirat Carmel, Israel), adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI) and model-based iterative reconstruction (GE Healthcare)

  0.25 mGy 0.4 mGy 0.8 mGy
Missed lesions
 Non-calcified lung nodules 25 (<5 mm)/112 18 (<5 mm)/112 3 (<4 mm)/112
 GGOs 4 (<8 mm)/21 2 (<4 mm)/21 2 (<4 mm)/21
 Thyroid nodules 3 (<3 mm)/3 2 (<3 mm)/3 2 (<3 mm)/3
 Pleural effusions 3 (small)/5 2 (small)/5 2 (small)/5
False-positive lesions
 Non-calcified lung nodules 7 (<4 mm) 4 (<4 mm) none
 GGOs 3 (<4 mm) 2 (<4 mm) none

GGOs, ground-glass opacities.