CT on the Diamond Princess: What Might This Tell Us About Sensitivity for COVID-19?

Masis Isikbay1, Michael D Hope1, Constantine A Raptis1

  • 1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, Room M391, Box 0628, San Francisco, CA 94143 (M.I., M.D.H., T.S.H.); Department of Radiology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (M.D.H.); Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO (C.A.R., A.J.B., S.B.); Department of Radiology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Manhasset, NY (A.S.); Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.M.H.); Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA (S.J.K.); Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (J.J.); and Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (P.D.F.).

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