Radiation dose reduction in CT of the brain: Can advanced noise filtering compensate for loss of image quality?

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 468-472

  Siemund, Roger ^a,b   Love A ^a,b   Van Westen, D ^a,b   Stenberg, L ^a,b   Petersen, C ^a,b   Bjorkman Burtscher I M ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain CT; Dose reduction; Image quality; Noise filtering; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NOISE ABATEMENT; RADIATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BRAIN CT; DOSE REDUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY CRITERIA; LOW CONTRAST RESOLUTION; NOISE FILTERING; NON-LINEAR FILTERS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; REDUCTION SOFTWARE;

IMAGE DENOISING;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860616718     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2012.110629     Document Type: Article

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