Clinical Evaluation and Potential Radiation Dose Reduction of the Novel Sinogram-affirmed Iterative Reconstruction Technique (SAFIRE) in Abdominal Computed Tomography Angiography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-172

  Schabel, Christoph ^a   Fenchel, Michael ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Flohr, Thomas G ^a,b   Wuerslin, Christian ^a   Thomas, Christoph ^a   Korn, Andreas ^a   Tsiflikas, Ilias ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Heuschmid, Martin ^a   Ketelsen, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Siemens Healthcare ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; CTA; Dose reduction; Iterative reconstruction; SAFIRE

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ABDOMINAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLBLADDER; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CYST; LUMBAR ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; SPLEEN ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873524416     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.08.015     Document Type: Article

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