CT images of abdomen and pelvis: Effect of nonlinear three-dimensional optimized reconstruction algorithm on image quality and lesion characteristics

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 309-315

  Rizzo, Stefania M R ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a,b   Schmidt, Bernhard ^c   Raupach, Rainer ^c   Maher, Michael M ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a   Saini, Sanjay ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACETABULUM; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER HILUS; MALE; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25144432836     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2371041879     Document Type: Article

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