Preliminary results: Prospective clinical study to assess image-based iterative reconstruction for abdominal computed tomography acquired at 2 radiation dose levels

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 117-122

  Pourjabbar, Sarvenaz ^a   Singh, Sarabjeet ^a   Singh, Anand K ^a   Johnston, Rocio P ^a   Shenoy Bhangle, Anuradha S ^a   Do, Synho ^a   Padole, Atul ^a   Blake, Michael A ^a   Persson, Anders ^b   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Iterative reconstruction technique; Multidetector CT; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

3-DIMENSIONAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE-BASED; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; LOW DOSE; MULTI-DETECTORS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTIONS;

VISIBILITY;

IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; KIDNEY CYST; LIVER METASTASIS; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; SPLEEN CYST;

CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84892896614     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: 15323145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3182a17629     Document Type: Article

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