Raw-data-based iterative reconstruction versus filtered back projection: Image quality of low-dose chest computed tomography examinations in 87 patients

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1024-1032

  Wang, Haiyan ^a   Tan, Bingyi ^b   Zhao, Bin ^a   Liang, Changhu ^a   Xu, Zhuodong ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chest; Computed tomography; Filtered back projection; Iterative reconstruction; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS INDEX; CHEST; DOSE-LENGTH PRODUCTS; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; GROUND-GLASS OPACITY; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; STUDENT'S T TESTS; SUBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; ITERATIVE METHODS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION ALGORITHM; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG; LUNG CYST; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; TRACHEA;

CHEST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIATION DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887022087     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: 18734499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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