Low tube voltage intermediate tube current liver MDCT: Sinogram-affirmed iterative reconstruction algorithm for detection of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-32

  Yu, Mi Hye ^a   Lee, Jeong Min ^a   Yoon, Jeong Hee ^a   Baek, Jee Hyun ^a   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Choi, Byung Ihn ^a   Flohr, Thomas G ^b  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b CT Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose reduction; Iterative reconstruction; Liver CT; Low tube voltage; Noise reduction

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERVASCULAR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION IN IMAGE SPACE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883344610     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.10000     Document Type: Article

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