Adaptive Iterative Dose Reduction using three Dimensional processing (AIDR3D) improves chest CT image quality and reduces radiation exposure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Yamashiro, Tsuneo ^a   Miyara, Tetsuhiro ^a   Honda, Osamu ^b   Kamiya, Hisashi ^a   Murata, Kiyoshi ^c   Ohno, Yoshiharu ^d   Tomiyama, Noriyuki ^b   Moriya, Hiroshi ^e   Koyama, Mitsuhiro ^f   Noma, Satoshi ^g   Kamiya, Ayano ^a   Tanaka, Yuko ^a,h   Murayama, Sadayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e Department of Radiology Ohara General Hospital ^*  (Japan)

^f OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^g TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h FUJIEDA MUNICIPAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 84922955845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105735     Document Type: Article

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