Radiation dose reduction with chest computed tomography using adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction technique: Initial experience

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 40-45

  Prakash, Priyanka ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Digumarthy, Subba R ^a   Hsieh, Jiang ^b   Pien, Homer ^a   Singh, Sarabjeet ^a   Gilman, Matthew D ^a   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

ASIR; Chest CT; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; CHEST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; EFFECTIVE DOSE; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; MULTI-DETECTORS; NOISE INDEX; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; WAUKESHA;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 76449091107     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181b26c67     Document Type: Article

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