CT coronary angiography: Image quality with sinogram-affirmed iterative reconstruction compared with filtered back-projection

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 272-278

  Wang, R ^a   Schoepf, U J ^b   Wu, R ^c   Gibbs, K P ^b   Yu, W ^a   Li, M ^a   Zhang, Z ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c SIEMENS LTD   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NOISE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873157669     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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