Reducing abdominal CT radiation dose with the adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction technique in children: A feasibility study

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1174-1182

  Vorona, Gregory A ^a   Ceschin, Rafael C ^a   Clayton, Barbara L ^a   Sutcavage, Tom ^a   Tadros, Sameh S ^a   Panigrahy, Ashok ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction; CT; Image quality; Radiation dose; Reconstruction algorithm

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052626817     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-011-2063-x     Document Type: Article

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