The impact of CT radiation dose reduction and iterative reconstruction algorithms from four different vendors on coronary calcium scoring

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2201-2212

  Willemink, Martin J ^a   Takx, Richard A P ^a   De Jong, Pim A ^a   Budde, Ricardo P J ^a   Bleys, Ronald L A W ^a   Das, Marco ^b   Wildberger, Joachim E ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^c   Buls, Nico ^d   De Mey, Johan ^d   Schilham, Arnold M R ^a   Leiner, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agatston; Computed tomography; Coronary calcium score; Iterative reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ALGORITHM; CADAVER; CALCINOSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CADAVER; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84905920101     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3217-7     Document Type: Article

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