Evaluation of dose reduction and image quality in CT colonography: Comparison of low-dose CT with iterative reconstruction and routine-dose CT with filtered back projection

European Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 221-229

  Nagata, Koichi ^a,b,c   Fujiwara, Masanori ^a   Kanazawa, Hidenori ^b   Mogi, Tomohiro ^a   Iida, Nao ^a   Mitsushima, Toru ^a   Lefor, Alan T ^b   Sugimoto, Hideharu ^b  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colonography; Computed tomography; Image enhancement; Iterative reconstruction techniques; Radiation dosage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SCREENING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84912559682     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3350-3     Document Type: Article

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