Ultra-low Dose Lung CT Perfusion Regularized by a Previous Scan

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 363-373

  Yu, Hengyong ^a   Zhao, Shiying ^a   Hoffman, Eric A ^a   Wang, Ge ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion based postfiltering; Dose reduction; lung CT perfusion; previous scan regularized reconstruction; PSRR; ultra low dose

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SHEEP;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; CONTRAST MEDIA; IOHEXOL; LUNG; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59449097598     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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