Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction technique for pulmonary CT. Image quality of the cadaveric lung on standard- and reduced-dose CT

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1259-1266

  Yanagawa, Masahiro ^a   Honda, Osamu ^a   Yoshida, Shigeyuki ^b   Kikuyama, Ayano ^a   Inoue, Atsuo ^a   Sumikawa, Hiromitsu ^a   Koyama, Mitsuhiro ^a   Tomiyama, Noriyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Minoh City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR); Cadaveric lung; Computed tomography (CT)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CADAVER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INJURY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANK SUM TEST;

ALGORITHMS; CADAVER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956490090     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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