Low dose dynamic CT myocardial perfusion imaging using a statistical iterative reconstruction method

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Tao, Yinghua ^a   Chen, Guang Hong ^a   Hacker, Timothy A ^a   Raval, Amish N ^a   Van Lysel, Michael S ^a   Speidel, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; low dose; myocardial perfusion; statistical iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAMMALS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; STATISTICS;

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; LOW DOSE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AMMONIA N 13; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; IODIXANOL; AMMONIA; NITROGEN; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FILTERED BACKPROJECTION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART CYCLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW DRUG DOSE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PET-CT SCANNER; PHOTON; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY OCCLUSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NITROGEN RADIOISOTOPES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84903204861     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4884023     Document Type: Article

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