A method for patient dose reduction in dynamic contrast enhanced CT study

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5094-5103

  Kim, Sun Mo ^a   Haider, Masoom A ^a   Milosevic, Michael ^a,b   Jaffray, David A ^a,b   Yeung, Ivan W T ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

arterial impulse response; DCE CT; orthonormal basis; pharmacokinetic analysis; radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DISEASES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; KINETIC PARAMETERS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCANNING; SIGNAL SAMPLING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ARTERIAL INPUT FUNCTION; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; ORTHONORMAL BASIS; PHARMACOKINETIC ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION METHOD;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052398404     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3622611     Document Type: Article

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