Impact of the adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction technique on image quality in ultra-low-dose CT

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 902-908

  Xu, Yan ^a   He, Wen ^a   Chen, Hui ^b   Hu, Zhihai ^a   Li, Juan ^a   Zhang, Tingting ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; THORAX WALL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881169238     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2013.03.024     Document Type: Article

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