Lowering the dose in head CT using adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1578-1582

  Kilic, Koray ^a   Erbas, G ^a   Guryildirim, M ^a   Arac, M ^a   Ilgit, E ^a   Coskun, B ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BASAL GANGLIA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054034749     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2585     Document Type: Article

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