Image reconstruction and image quality evaluation for a dual source CT scanner

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5882-5897

  Flohr, T G ^a,b   Bruder, H ^a   Stierstorfer, K ^a   Petersilka, M ^a   Schmidt, B ^a   McCollough, C H ^c  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; CT image quality evaluation; CT image reconstruction; Dual source CT; Multidetector row CT

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRAPOLATION; HEART; IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NOISE ABATEMENT; PHANTOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CARDIAC CT; CT IMAGE; CT IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; DUAL-SOURCE CT; MULTI-DETECTOR ROW CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 56749185909     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3020756     Document Type: Article

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