Assessment of an advanced image-based technique to calculate virtual monoenergetic computed tomographic images from a dual-energy examination to improve contrast-to-noise ratio in examinations using iodinated contrast media

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 586-592

  Grant, Katharine L ^a   Flohr, Thomas G ^b,c   Krauss, Bernhard ^b   Sedlmair, Martin ^b   Thomas, Christoph ^c   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b,d  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Imaging and Therapy Systems Division   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

contrast enhanced CT; CT image quality; dual energy CT; radiation dose; virtual monoenergetic CT

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; CONTRAST MEDIUM; IODINE;

ABDOMEN; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL MONOENERGETIC IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC USE; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; IODINE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84905868915     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000060     Document Type: Article

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