CT of the chest with model-based, fully iterative reconstruction: Comparison with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ichikawa, Yasutaka ^a   Kitagawa, Kakuya ^a   Nagasawa, Naoki ^a   Murashima, Shuichi ^a   Sakuma, Hajime ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction; Chest; Filtered back projection; Low dose computed tomography; Model based iterative reconstruction; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881132755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-13-27     Document Type: Article

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