Reduced image noise at low-dose multidetector CT of the abdomen with prior image constrained compressed sensing algorithm

Radiology

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 248-256

  Lubner, Meghan G ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^a   Tang, Jie ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIOR IMAGE CONSTRAINED COMPRESSED SENSING ALGORITHM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATA COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959559491     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11101380     Document Type: Article

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