Effect of radiation dose and adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction on image quality of pulmonary computed tomography

Japanese Journal of Radiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 146-153

  Sato, Jiro ^a   Akahane, Masaaki ^a   Inano, Sachiko ^a   Terasaki, Mariko ^a   Akai, Hiroyuki ^a   Katsura, Masaki ^a   Matsuda, Izuru ^a   Kunimatsu, Akira ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dose reduction; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SWINE; ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SUS SCROFA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861835337     PISSN: 18671071     EISSN: 1867108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-011-0026-7     Document Type: Article

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