Effect of hybrid iterative reconstruction technique on quantitative and qualitative image analysis at 256-slice prospective gating cardiac CT

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1287-1294

  Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^a,b   Weigold, Wm Guy ^a   Weissman, Gaby ^a   Taylor, Allen J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging techniques; Coronary arteries; Image reconstruction; Noise; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861526057     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2361-6     Document Type: Article

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