Radiation dose reduction in temporal bone ct with iterative reconstruction technique

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1020-1026

  Niu, Y T ^a   Mehta, D ^b   Zhang, Z R ^a   Zhang, Y X ^a   Liu, Y F ^a   Kang, T L ^a   Xian, J F ^a   Wang, Zhenchang ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TEMPORAL BONE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862545006     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2941     Document Type: Article

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