Noise reduction and image quality improvement of low dose and ultra low dose brain perfusion CT by HYPR-LR processing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Krissak, Radko ^a   Mistretta, Charles A ^b   Henzler, Thomas ^a   Chatzikonstantinou, Anastasios ^a   Scharf, Johann ^a   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^a   Fink, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGHLY CONSTRAINED BACK PROJECTION LOCAL RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTIGRAPHY; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79951822981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017098     Document Type: Article

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