Estimated radiation dose reduction using adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction in coronary CT angiography: The ERASIR study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 655-660

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Fairfax Radiological Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction; Coronary CT angiography; Iterative reconstruction; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC USE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODIXANOL; IODOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

EID: 77956832667     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4288     Document Type: Article

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