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Recent promising trials that use low-dose CT for the early detection of lun
g cancer have reinvigorated the interest in screening approaches. At the sa
me time the development of fast image acquisition techniques, such as multi
slice CT, have sparked renewed interest in cardiac imaging within the radio
logical community. In addition to special cardiac capabilities, multislice
CT has several other features such as high acquisition speed and low-dose r
equirements that may make this modality a universal radiological screening
tool. Non-invasive disease detection is the radiologist's domain. In this p
aper we identify criteria for effective screening and apply these criteria
to screening approaches with multislice CT when used for detection of three
disease entities: colon cancer; lung cancer; and cardiovascular disease.