Radiation dose of non-enhanced chest CT can be reduced 40% by using iterative reconstruction in image space

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1023-1029

  Hu, X H ^a   Ding, X F ^a   Wu, R Z ^b   Zhang, M M ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b SIEMENS LTD   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION IN IMAGE SPACE; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ENHANCED CHEST COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; REFERENCE VALUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052962265     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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