Iterative image reconstruction techniques for CT coronary artery calcium quantification: Comparison with traditional filtered back projection in vitro and in vivo

Radiology

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 387-393

  Schindler, Andreas ^a,b   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a,c   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Blanke, Philipp ^a,d   Ebersberger, Ullrich ^a,e   Cho, Young Jun ^a   Allmendinger, Thomas ^f   Vogt, Sebastian ^f   Raupach, Rainer ^f   Fink, Christian ^a,g   Saam, Tobias ^b   Bamberg, Fabian ^b   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^b   Apfaltrer, Paul ^a,g  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e Munich Heart Alliance   (Germany)

^f SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION IMAGE SPACE; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84893517714     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13130233     Document Type: Article

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