How far can the radiation dose be lowered in head CT with iterative reconstruction? Analysis of imaging quality and diagnostic accuracy

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2612-2621

  Wu, Tung Hsin ^b   Hung, Sheng Che ^a,b   Sun, Jing Yi ^b   Lin, Chung Jung ^a,b   Lin, Chung Hsien ^c   Chiu, Chen Fen ^a,b   Liu, Min Jsuan ^a,b   Teng, Michael Mu Huo ^a,b   Guo, Wan Yuo ^a,b   Chang, Cheng Yen ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contrast to noise ratio; Filtered back projection; Iterative reconstruction; Noise; Sharpness

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BINSWANGER ENCEPHALOPATHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTPATIENTS; PREVALENCE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84882285547     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-013-2846-6     Document Type: Article

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