Radiation dose reduction for chest CT with non-linear adaptive filters

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 169-174

  Singh, Sarabjeet ^a   Digumarthy, Subba R ^a   Back, Anni ^b   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ContextVision AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chest CT image quality; CT radiation dose reduction; Image noise reduction; Low dose chest CT; Non linear adaptive filters; Postprocessing software

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE ABATEMENT; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VISIBILITY;

CHEST CT; IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION; IMAGE-PROCESSING SOFTWARE; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; POST-PROCESSED IMAGES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

IMAGE DENOISING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOPAMIDOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876734819     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2012.120045     Document Type: Article

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