Reducing CT radiation dose with iterative reconstruction algorithms: The influence of scan and reconstruction parameters on image quality and CTDI vol

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1645-1654

  Klink, Thorsten ^a,d   Obmann, Verena ^a   Heverhagen, Johannes ^a   Stork, Alexander ^b   Adam, Gerhard ^c   Begemann, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Roentgeninstitut   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hybrid iterative reconstruction; Image quality; Phantom; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; IMAGING PHANTOM; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906326643     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2014.05.033     Document Type: Article

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