Initial performance characterization of a clinical noise-suppressing reconstruction algorithm for MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1404-1409

  Noël, Peter B ^a   Fingerle, Alexander A ^a   Renger, Bernhard ^a   Münzel, Daniela ^a   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a   Dobritz, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Dose reduction; Noise reduction; Radiation dose; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82455217279     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6907     Document Type: Article

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