Image quality assessment in torso phantom comparing effects of varying automatic current modulation with filtered back projection, adaptive statistical, and model-based iterative reconstruction techniques in CT

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 228-238

  Vardhanabhuti, Varut ^a,b   Olubaniyi, Babajide ^a   Loader, Robert ^a   Riordan, Richard D ^a   Williams, Michael P ^a   Roobottom, Carl A ^a,b  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL FILTERING; DOSE RESPONSE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MODEL BASED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRUNK;

EID: 84870516674     PISSN: 19398654     EISSN: 18767982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmir.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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