Evaluating iterative reconstruction performance in computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Baiyu ^a   Ramirez Giraldo, Juan Carlos ^b   Solomon, Justin ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT iterative reconstruction; detectability index; dose reduction; IRIS; SAFIRE; task generic; task specific

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; DETECTABILITY INDEX; DOSE REDUCTION; IRIS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; PERFORMANCE; REDUCTION POTENTIAL; SAFIRE; TASK-GENERIC; TASK-SPECIFIC;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; ARTIFACTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84919340238     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4901670     Document Type: Article

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