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Cynthia H. McCollough

Cynthia H. McCollough

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Medicine

D-Index
113
Citations
48918
World Ranking
4940
National Ranking
2678

Overview

Cynthia H. McCollough is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States and has an extensive research profile primarily in the fields of Medicine and Engineering. Their work emphasizes Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging as well as Biomedical Engineering, with additional contributions to Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oral Surgery, and Surgery.

The main focus areas of their research encompass Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging, Radiation Dose and Imaging, and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications. Other topics explored include Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Radiology practices and education, and Dental Radiography and Imaging.

Their recent publications include:

  • First Clinical Photon-counting Detector CT System: Technical Evaluation, 2021, Radiology
  • Low-dose CT image and projection dataset, 2020, Medical Physics
  • Principles and applications of multienergy CT: Report of AAPM Task Group 291, 2020, Medical Physics
  • Photon-Counting Detector CT: Key Points Radiologists Should Know, 2022, Korean Journal of Radiology
  • Photon Counting CT: Clinical Applications and Future Developments, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include Shuai Leng, Lifeng Yu, Joel G. Fletcher, Kishore Rajendran, and Francis Baffour.

They frequently publish in the following venues:

  • Medical Physics
  • Medical Imaging 2022: Physics of Medical Imaging
  • Radiology
  • Journal of Medical Imaging
  • Investigative Radiology

Best Publications

  • First performance evaluation of a dual-source CT (DSCT) system.

    Thomas G. Flohr;Cynthia H. McCollough;Herbert Bruder;Martin Petersilka

  • Dual- and Multi-Energy CT: Principles, Technical Approaches, and Clinical Applications

    Cynthia H. McCollough;Shuai Leng;Lifeng Yu;Joel G. Fletcher

  • The national lung screening trial: Overview and study design

    Constantine A. Gatsonis;Denise R. Aberle;Christine D. Berg;William C. Black

  • Estimated Radiation Dose Associated With Cardiac CT Angiography

    Jörg Hausleiter;Tanja Meyer;Franziska Hermann;Martin Hadamitzky

  • CT dose reduction and dose management tools: overview of available options.

    Cynthia H. McCollough;Michael R. Bruesewitz;James M. Kofler

  • Population-based study of age and sex differences in bone volumetric density, size, geometry, and structure at different skeletal sites.

    B Lawrence Riggs;L Joseph Melton;Richard A Robb;Jon J Camp

  • Strategies for reducing radiation dose in CT.

    Cynthia H. McCollough;Andrew N. Primak;Natalie Braun;James Kofler

  • Ionizing radiation in cardiac imaging: a science advisory from the American Heart Association Committee on Cardiac Imaging of the Council on Clinical Cardiology and Committee on Cardiovascular Imaging and Intervention of the Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention

    Thomas C. Gerber;J. Jeffrey Carr;Andrew E. Arai;Robert L. Dixon

  • Radiation Exposure and Pregnancy: When Should We Be Concerned?

    Cynthia H. McCollough;Beth A. Schueler;Thomas D. Atwell;Natalie N. Braun

  • Dual-Energy CT–Based Monochromatic Imaging

    Lifeng Yu;Shuai Leng;Cynthia H. McCollough

  • Radiation dose in computed tomography of the heart.

    Richard L. Morin;Thomas C. Gerber;Cynthia H. McCollough

  • Size-Specific Dose Estimates (SSDE) in Pediatric and Adult Body CT Examinations

    John Boone;Keith Strauss;Dianna Cody;Cynthia McCollough

  • Estimating Effective Dose for CT Using Dose–Length Product Compared With Using Organ Doses: Consequences of Adopting International Commission on Radiological Protection Publication 103 or Dual-Energy Scanning

    Jodie A. Christner;James M. Kofler;Cynthia H. McCollough

  • Performance evaluation of a multi-slice CT system.

    Cynthia H. McCollough;Frank E. Zink

  • CT Dose Index and Patient Dose: They Are Not the Same Thing

    Cynthia H. McCollough;Shuai Leng;Lifeng Yu;Dianna D. Cody

  • Noninvasive differentiation of uric acid versus non-uric acid kidney stones using dual-energy CT.

    Andrew N. Primak;Joel G. Fletcher;Terri J. Vrtiska;Oleksandr P. Dzyubak

  • Radiation dose reduction in computed tomography: techniques and future perspective

    Lifeng Yu;Xin Liu;Shuai Leng;James M Kofler

  • The Measurement, Reporting, and Management of Radiation Dose in CT

    Cynthia McCollough;Dianna Cody;Sue Edyvean;Rich Geise

  • Coronary artery calcium screening: current status and recommendations from the European Society of Cardiac Radiology and North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging

    Matthijs Oudkerk;Arthur E Stillman;Sandra S. Halliburton;Willi A. Kalender

  • Crohn Disease: Mural Attenuation and Thickness at Contrast-enhanced CT Enterography—Correlation with Endoscopic and Histologic Findings of Inflammation

    Kale D. Bodily;Joel G. Fletcher;Craig A. Solem;C. Daniel Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel G. Fletcher
Joel G. Fletcher Mayo Clinic
Erik L. Ritman
Erik L. Ritman Mayo Clinic
Rickey E. Carter
Rickey E. Carter Mayo Clinic
Thomas Flohr
Thomas Flohr Siemens (Germany)
Armando Manduca
Armando Manduca Mayo Clinic
Lilach O. Lerman
Lilach O. Lerman Mayo Clinic
John C. Lieske
John C. Lieske Mayo Clinic
David R. Holmes
David R. Holmes Mayo Clinic
Richard A. Robb
Richard A. Robb Mayo Clinic
Kai Nan An
Kai Nan An Mayo Clinic

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