Image quality and radiation dose of low dose coronary CT angiography in obese patients: Sinogram affirmed iterative reconstruction versus filtered back projection

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3141-3145

  Wang, Rui ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^b   Wu, Runze ^c   Reddy, Ryan P ^b   Zhang, Chuanchen ^d   Yu, Wei ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Zhang, Zhaoqi ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c SIEMENS LTD   (China)

^d Liaocheng People Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Image quality; Iterative reconstruction; Obesity; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866987989     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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