Influence of acquisition settings and radiation exposure on CT lung densitometry—An anthropomorphic ex vivo phantom study

• Patricia Leutz-Schmidt ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Patricia.Leutz@med.uni-heidelberg.de (PLS); wolfram.stiller@med.uni-heidelberg.de (WS)

  Affiliations Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3860-7652

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• Mark O. Wielpütz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Radiology (E010), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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• Stephan Skornitzke,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Oliver Weinheimer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Hans-Ulrich Kauczor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Michael U. Puderbach,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Radiology (E010), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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• Gregor Pahn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Wolfram Stiller

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Patricia.Leutz@med.uni-heidelberg.de (PLS); wolfram.stiller@med.uni-heidelberg.de (WS)

  Affiliations Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (DIR), Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC) Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Radiology (E010), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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