Comparative assessment of three image reconstruction techniques for image quality and radiation dose in patients undergoing abdominopelvic multidetector CT examinations

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1021, 2013, Pages

  Desai, G S ^a   Thabet, A ^a   Elias, A Y A ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; DIATRIZOATE; IOPAMIDOL; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; STUDENT T TEST; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84871894143     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20120161     Document Type: Article

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