Radiation dose reduction in abdominal computed tomography during the late hepatic arterial phase using a model-based iterative reconstruction algorithm: How low can we go?

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 468-474

  Husarik, Daniela B ^a   Marin, Daniele ^b   Samei, Ehsan ^b   Richard, Samuel ^b   Chen, Baiyu ^b   Jaffe, Tracy A ^b   Bashir, Mustafa R ^b   Nelson, Rendon C ^b  

^a University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; image quality; iterative reconstruction; radiation dose; raw data

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER INJURY; MODEL BASED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84863721418     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318251eafd     Document Type: Article

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