Effect of reconstruction algorithm on image quality and identification of ground-glass opacities and partly solid nodules on low-dose thin-section CT: Experimental study using chest phantom

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 500-507

  Koyama, Hisanobu ^a   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^b   Kono, Atsushi A ^b   Kusaka, Akiko ^b   Konishi, Minoru ^b   Yoshii, Masaru ^b   Sugimura, Kazuro ^b  

^a Hyogo Prefectural Kaibara Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

High resolution CT; Lung; Radiation dose; Reconstruction algorithm

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; CHEST CT; CHEST PHANTOM; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GROUND-GLASS OPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION CT; KAPPA VALUES; LOW DOSE; LOW-DOSE CT; RADIATION DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; ROC ANALYSIS; THIN-SECTION CT; TUBE CURRENTS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETRY; GLASS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPACITY; REPAIR; STANDARDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG GROUND GLASS OPACITY; LUNG NODULE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THORAX EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952877597     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.03.013     Document Type: Article

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