Relationships of clinical protocols and reconstruction kernels with image quality and radiation dose in a 128-slice CT scanner: Study with an anthropomorphic and water phantom

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Paul, Jijo ^a,b   Krauss, B ^c   Banckwitz, R ^c   Maentele, W ^b   Bauer, R W ^a   Vogl, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alderson phantom; Clinical protocol; Dual source CT; Noise; Reconstruction kernel; Slice thickness; Water phantom

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRIEDMAN TEST; IMAGE QUALITY; KERNEL METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 84859994537     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.01.078     Document Type: Article

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