Sinogram-Affirmed iterative reconstruction of low-dose chest CT: Effect on image quality and radiation dose

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Woisetschlager, Mischa ^b   Dahlstrom, Nils ^b   Singh, Sarabjeet ^a   Digumarthy, Subbarao ^a   Do, Synho ^a   Pien, Homer ^a   Quick, Petter ^b   Schmidt, Bernhard ^c   Sedlmair, Martin ^c   Shepard, Jo Anne O ^a   Persson, Anders ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction; Low dose chest CT; Radiation dose reduction.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC CONFIDENCE; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THORACIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883735350     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.9569     Document Type: Article

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