Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction: assessment of image noise and image quality in coronary CT angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 649-654

  Leipsic, Jonathon ^a   LaBounty, Troy M ^b   Heilbron, Brett ^a   Min, James K ^b   Mancini, G B John ^a   Lin, Fay Y ^b   Taylor, Carolyn ^a   Dunning, Allison ^b   Earls, James P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Fairfax Radiological Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR); Coronary CT angiography; Dose reduction; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC USE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 77956825812     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4285     Document Type: Article

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