Post-processing image filtration enabling dose reduction in standard abdominal CT

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 180-185

  Leander, Peter ^a   Söderberg, Marcus ^a,b   Fält, Tobias ^a   Gunnarsson, Mikael ^a,b   Albertsson, Ida ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953350622     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq086     Document Type: Article

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