Potential benefit of the CT Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction method for pediatric cardiac diagnosis

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Miéville, Frédéric A ^a   Ayestaran, Paul ^b   Argaud, Christophe ^b   Rizzo, Elena ^a   Ou, Phalla ^c   Brunelle, Francis ^c   Gudinchet, François ^a   Bochud, François ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

ASIR; CT; Dose; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction; Noise; Pediatric cardiac; Visual grading

Indexed keywords

ASIR; CT; DOSE; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE; VISUAL GRADING;

HEART; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE ABATEMENT; PEDIATRICS; QUALITY CONTROL;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84856563649     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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