Performance of iterative reconstruction and automated tube voltage selection on the image quality and radiation dose in abdominal CT scans

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 897-903

  Desai, Gaurav S ^a   Fuentes Orrego, Jorge M ^a   Kambadakone, Avinash R ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

abdomen; image quality; iterative reconstruction; radiation dose

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PHANTOMS;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOMS; SINOGRAMS; TUBE VOLTAGES; VOLTAGE SELECTION;

IMAGE QUALITY;

BARIUM SULFATE; IOPAMIDOL; READI CAT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED TUBE VOLTAGE SELECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS CANCER; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RECTUM CANCER;

EID: 84889007201     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3182a73fa6     Document Type: Article

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