Iterative image reconstruction: A realistic dose-saving method in cardiac CT imaging?

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 403-409

  Renker, Matthias ^a,b   Geyer, Lucas L ^a,c   Krazinski, Aleksander W ^a   Silverman, Justin R ^a   Ebersberger, Ullrich ^a,d   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Munich Heart Alliance   (Germany)

Author keywords

artifacts; cardiac computed tomography; image noise; iterative reconstruction; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE REDUCTION; OBESITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; X RAY TUBE;

ARTIFACTS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876148796     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.12.178     Document Type: Article

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