Assessment of an iterative reconstruction algorithm (SAFIRE) on image quality in pediatric cardiac CT datasets

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 200-204

  Han, B Kelly ^a,b,c   Grant, Katharine L R ^d   Garberich, Ross ^c   Sedlmair, Martin ^d   Lindberg, Jana ^c   Lesser, John R ^c  

^a Children's Heart Clinic   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Dose reduction; Iterative reconstruction; Pediatric CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; WEIGHTED FILTERED BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862014130     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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