Dose reduction and lesion delectability in abdominal CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Tipnis, Sameer ^a   Huda, Walter ^a   Hardie, Andrew ^a   Ogden, Kent ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdomen; AFC; CT; Dose reduction; Image noise; Lesion detection; Liver; MAs

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; AFC; CT; DOSE REDUCTION; IMAGE NOISE; LESION DETECTION; MAS;

LIVER; MEDICAL IMAGING; QUANTUM NOISE; X RAYS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873909646     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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