Assessment of image quality on effects of varying tube voltage and automatic tube current modulation with hybrid and pure iterative reconstruction techniques in abdominal/pelvic CT: A phantom study

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 167-174

  Vardhanabhuti, Varut ^a,b   Loader, Robert ^a   Roobottom, Carl A ^a,b  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

ASIR; computed tomography; image quality; kVp; MBIR; model based iterative reconstruction; noise index; reconstruction algorithm; tube current modulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODEL BASED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 84873408184     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e31827b8f61     Document Type: Article

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