Iterative image reconstruction techniques: Applications for cardiac CT

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 225-230

  Renker, Matthias ^a   Ramachandra, Ashok ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Raupach, Rainer ^b   Apfaltrer, Paul ^a,c   Rowe, Garrett W ^a   Vogt, Sebastian ^b   Flohr, Thomas G ^b   Kerl, J Matthias ^d   Bauer, Ralf W ^d   Fink, Christian ^c   Henzler, Thomas ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Coronary CT angiography; Filtered back projection; Image noise; Iterative reconstruction; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALCINOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 80055097154     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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