Optimisation of an MDCT abdominal protocol: Image quality assessment of standard vs. iterative reconstructions

Physica Medica

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 271-279

  Berta, L ^a   Mascaro, L ^a   Feroldi, P ^a   Maroldi, R ^b  

^a Medical Physics Department   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; CT protocol optimisation; Iterative reconstruction; Multi detector CT; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SYSTEM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896079501     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2013.07.126     Document Type: Article

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