Diagnostic performance of an advanced modeled iterative reconstruction algorithm for low-contrast detectability with a third-generation dual-source multidetector CT scanner: Potential for radiation dose reduction in a multireader study

Radiology

Volumn 275, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 735-745

  Solomon, Justin ^a   Mileto, Achille ^a   Ramirez Giraldo, Juan Carlos ^b   Samei, Ehsan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84920141704     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.15142005     Document Type: Article

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