Development of a noise reduction filter algorithm for pediatric body images in multidetector CT

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 806-818

  Nishimaru, Eiji ^a,c   Ichikawa, Katsuhiro ^c   Okita, Izumi ^a   Tomoshige, Yukihiro ^a   Kurokawa, Takehiro ^a   Nakamura, Yuko ^b   Suzuki, Masayuki ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); image processing; noise reduction; pediatric; radiation dose; spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ADULT PATIENTS; AXIAL PLANES; BODY IMAGE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CT IMAGE; DOSE REDUCTION; FIELDS OF VIEWS; FILTER ALGORITHM; IMAGE FILTERS; IN-PLANE; MEDIAN FILTER; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; MULTIDETECTOR CT; NOISE INDEX; NOISE REDUCTION FILTERS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PEDIATRIC PATIENTS; PHANTOM STUDIES; PIXEL VALUES; POST PROCESSING; PREMATURE BABY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; SLICE THICKNESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; VOLUMETRIC DATA SETS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FILTERS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PEDIATRICS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650589385     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9218-4     Document Type: Article

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