Reduction of image noise in low tube current dynamic CT myocardial perfusion imaging using HYPR processing: A time-attenuation curve analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Speidel, Michael A ^a   Bateman, Courtney L ^a   Tao, Yinghua ^a   Raval, Amish N ^a   Hacker, Timothy A ^a   Reeder, Scott B ^b   Van Lysel, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; myocardial perfusion; noise reduction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE DENOISING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAMMALS; NOISE ABATEMENT; PROCESSING; SCANNING;

CLINICAL SCANNERS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING - METHODS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROCESSING METHOD; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DEVIATIONS; SLIDING TIME WINDOWS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IODIXANOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART CYCLE; HIGHLY CONSTRAINED BACKPROJECTION PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TIME ATTENUATION CURVE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872043005     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4770283     Document Type: Article

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