Low-tube-voltage, high-tube-current multidetector abdominal CT: Improved image quality and decreased radiation dose with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction algorithm - Initial clinical experience

Radiology

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 145-153

  Marin, Daniele ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^b   Richard, Samuel ^a   Youngblood, Richard S ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 75349092506     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09090094     Document Type: Article

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