Combining low tube voltage and iterative reconstruction for contrast-enhanced CT imaging of the chest - Initial clinical experience

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Li, Q ^a   Yu, H ^a   Zhang, L ^b   Fan, L ^a   Liu, S Y ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LINYI PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84876119274     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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