Low-dose MDCT and CT enterography of patients with crohn disease: Feasibility of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kambadakone, Avinash R ^a   Chaudhary, Naueen A ^a   Desai, Gaurav S ^a   Nguyen, Deanna D ^a   Kulkarni, Naveen M ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction; Crohn disease; CT enterography; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; DIATRIZOATE; IOPAMIDOL; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW DOSE MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROHN DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960496077     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5303     Document Type: Article

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