Radiation dose reduction in hepatic multidetector computed tomography with a novel adaptive noise reduction filter

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 171-177

  Funama, Yoshinori ^a   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Miyazaki, Osamu ^c   Goto, Taiga ^c   Nakayama, Yoshiharu ^b   Shimamura, Masamitchi ^a   Hiraishi, Kumiko ^d   Hori, Shinichi ^d   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^d GateTower Institute for Image Guided Therapy   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive noise reduction filter; Hepatic CT; Low dose CT; Visual evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILTER; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER EXAMINATION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PORTAL VEIN; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 43249091045     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0202-y     Document Type: Article

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