The effect of dose reduction and feasibility of edge-preserving noise reduction on the detection of liver lesions using MSCT

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1885-1891

  Wessling, Johannes ^a   Esseling, Rainer ^a   Raupach, Rainer ^b   Fockenberg, Stefanie ^a   Osada, Nani ^a   Gerß, Joachim ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Fischbach, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver CT; Multi slice CT; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34250326683     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0545-2     Document Type: Article

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