Targeted early chest CT in COVID-19 outbreaks as diagnostic tool for containment of the pandemic-A multinational opinion

Amel Amalou; Barış Türkbey; Tom Sanford; Stephanie Harmon; Evrim B Türkbey; Sheng Xu; Peng An; Gianpaolo Carrafiello; Maurizio Cariati; Francesca Patella; Hirofumi Obinata; Hitoshi Mori; Kaiyuan Sun; David J Spiro; Robert Suh; Hayet Amalou; Bradford J Wood

doi:10.5152/dir.2020.20231

Targeted early chest CT in COVID-19 outbreaks as diagnostic tool for containment of the pandemic-A multinational opinion

Diagn Interv Radiol. 2020 Jul;26(4):292-295. doi: 10.5152/dir.2020.20231.

Authors

Amel Amalou¹, Barış Türkbey², Tom Sanford³, Stephanie Harmon⁴, Evrim B Türkbey⁵, Sheng Xu¹, Peng An⁶, Gianpaolo Carrafiello⁷, Maurizio Cariati⁸, Francesca Patella⁸, Hirofumi Obinata⁹, Hitoshi Mori⁹, Kaiyuan Sun¹⁰, David J Spiro¹⁰, Robert Suh¹¹, Hayet Amalou¹¹, Bradford J Wood¹

Affiliations

¹ Center for Interventional Oncology, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, NIH Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
² Molecular Imaging Branch, NIH Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
³ Molecular Imaging Branch, NIH Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;Syracuse University of New York- Upstate, USA.
⁴ Molecular Imaging Branch, NIH Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;the Molecular Imaging Branch, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Molecular Imaging Branch and the Radiology and Imaging Sciences, NIH Clinical Center and National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiology, Xiangyang First People's Hospital Affiliated to Hubei University of Medicine Xiangyang, Hubei, China.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Italy.
⁸ Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Service, San Paolo Hospital, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milan, Italy.
⁹ Self-Defense Forces Central Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
¹⁰ Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
¹¹ Department of Radiology, University of California Los Angeles, California, USA.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / genetics
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
China / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control
Early Diagnosis
Humans
Internationality
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Prevalence
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods
SARS-CoV-2
Sensitivity and Specificity
Thorax / diagnostic imaging*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / economics
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*

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