Improved image quality in dual-energy abdominal CT: comparison of iterative reconstruction in image space and filtered back projection reconstruction

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 402-406

  Wang, Rui ^a   Yu, Wei ^a   Wu, Runze ^b   Yang, Hua ^c   Lu, Dongxu ^a   Liu, Jiayi ^a   Zhang, Zhaoqi ^a   Zhang, Chuanchen ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SIEMENS LTD   (China)

^c HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Dual energy ct; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; AORTA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION IN IMAGE SPACE ALGORITHM; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864742706     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7159     Document Type: Article

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