Evaluation of Coronary Artery Image Quality with Knowledge-based Iterative Model Reconstruction

Academic Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 805-811

  Halpern, Ethan J ^a   Gingold, Eric L ^a   White, Hugh ^b   Read, Katrina ^c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary CTA; CT image quality; CT reconstruction; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED ITERATIVE MODEL RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLE; VERY ELDERLY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IOVERSOL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALCINOSIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS;

EID: 84899827424     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2014.02.017     Document Type: Article

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