Low-dose abdominal CT: Comparison of low tube voltage with moderate-level iterative reconstruction and standard tube voltage, low tube current with high-level iterative reconstruction

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1008-1015

  Kidoh, M ^a,b   Nakaura, T ^a,b   Nakamura, S ^a,b   Oda, S ^b   Utsunomiya, D ^b   Sakai, Y ^a   Harada, K ^a   Yamashita, Y ^b  

^a AMAKUSA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYBRID ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STUDENT T TEST; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; X RAY TUBE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883448708     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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