Improvement in image quality of noncontrast head images in multidetector-row CT by volume helical scanning with a three-dimensional denoising filter

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 368-372

  Sasaki, Tadashi ^a   Sasaki, Makoto ^a   Hanari, Takao ^a   Gakumazawa, Hiroshi ^a   Noshi, Yasuhiro ^b   Okumura, Miwa ^b  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Denoising filter; Helical scan; Low contrast resolution; Multidetector row CT; Noncontrast head CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALVARIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACT; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 38449095446     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0145-3     Document Type: Article

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