Meier-Schroers, Michael
Homsi, Rami
Gieseke, Jürgen
Schild, Hans Heinz
Thomas, Daniel
Article History
Received: 5 December 2017
Revised: 15 January 2018
Accepted: 12 February 2018
First Online: 10 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Daniel Thomas.
: One co-author of this manuscript, Jürgen Gieseke, is an employee of Philips Healthcare Germany. However, he did not have any influence on the study design, evaluation or interpretation of results. His main contribution was optimising the MR sequences and reviewing the manuscript.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: All study subjects are participants of our lung cancer screening program. The performance of MRI regarding the detection of lung nodules in the first screening round were published in 2017 (Meier-Schroers M, Homsi R, Skowasch D, Buermann J, Zipfel M, Schild HH, Thomas D. Lung cancer screening with MRI: results of the first screening round. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2017 Sep 20. [Epub ahead of print]). The current study reports on the first two screening rounds including all follow-ups and on the applicability of the Lung-RADS classification.
: • prospective• diagnostic study• performed at one institution