Radiation dose reduction in time-resolved CT angiography using highly constrained back projection reconstruction

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4575-4593

  Supanich, Mark ^a   Tao, Yinghua ^a   Nett, Brian ^a   Pulfer, Kari ^b   Hsieh, Jiang ^c   Turski, Patrick ^b   Mistretta, Charles ^a,b   Rowley, Howard ^b   Chen, Guang Hong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK PROJECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT; CT ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE SETS; IMAGING COMMUNITY; IN-VIVO; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; PATIENT DOSE; POTENTIAL RISKS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; TIME-RESOLVED; TUBE CURRENTS;

ANEMOMETERS; ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOG; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; DOGS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349571711     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/14/013     Document Type: Article

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