Clinical impact of an adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction algorithm for detection of hypervascular liver tumours using a low tube voltage, high tube current MDCT technique

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3325-3335

  Marin, Daniele ^a   Choudhury, Kingshuk Roy ^a   Gupta, Rajan T ^a   Ho, Lisa M ^a   Allen, Brian C ^b   Schindera, Sebastian T ^c   Colsher, James G ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal neoplasms; Diagnostic accuracy; Diagnostic imaging; Early detection of cancer; Magnetic resonance (MR); Multidetector computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY METASTASIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR TUMOR;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CONTRAST MEDIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84890569538     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-013-2964-1     Document Type: Article

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