3-Dimensional adaptive raw-data filter: Evaluation in low dose chest multidetector-row computed tomography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 933-938

  Kubo, Takeshi ^a   Nishino, Mizuki ^a   Kino, Aya ^a   Yoshimura, Norihiko ^a   Lin, Pei Jan Paul ^a   Takahashi, Masaya ^a   Raptopoulos, Vassilios ^a   Hatabu, Hiroto ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest CT; Filter; Low dose CT; Streak artifacts

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

3-DIMENSIONAL; CHEST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; DATA FILTER; FILTER; LOW DOSE; LOW DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; MULTIDETECTOR ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STREAK ARTIFACTS;

BANDPASS FILTERS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 33750685698     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rct.0000221951.60393.64     Document Type: Article

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