Radiation dose reduction in cerebral CT perfusion imaging using iterative reconstruction

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 484-493

  Niesten, Joris M ^a   Van Der Schaaf, Irene C ^a   Riordan, Alan J ^a   De Jong, Hugo W A M ^a   Horsch, Alexander D ^a,b   Eijspaart, Daniel ^a   Smit, Ewoud J ^a   Mali, Willem P T M ^a   Velthuis, Birgitta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebral perfusion; Computed tomography; Infarction; Radiation dose; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED SCINTIGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTOXICATION; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERFUSION IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE;

EID: 84893230668     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-013-3042-4     Document Type: Article

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