Influence of Sinogram Affirmed Iterative Reconstruction of CT Data on Image Noise Characteristics and Low-Contrast Detectability: An Objective Approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  von Falck, Christian ^a   Bratanova, Vesela ^a   Rodt, Thomas ^a   Meyer, Bernhard ^a   Waldeck, Stephan ^b   Wacker, Frank ^a   Shin, Hoen oh ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LOW CONTRAST DETECTABILITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PHANTOM; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM;

PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873932910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056875     Document Type: Article

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