Sinogram Affirmed Iterative Reconstruction (SAFIRE) versus weighted filtered back projection (WFBP) effects on quantitative measure in the COPDGene 2 test object

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Sieren, J P ^a   Hoffman, E A ^a,b   Fuld, M K ^c   Chan, K S ^d   Guo, J ^a   Newell, J D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b IA United States   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; COPD; dose; emphysema; lung imaging; phantom; quantitative CT; test object

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION; PULMONARY DISEASES; TESTING;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COPD; DOSE; EMPHYSEMA; LUNG IMAGING; MEDIAN VALUE; PHANTOMS; QUANTITATIVE CT; RING SIZES; TEST OBJECT;

PHANTOMS;

POLYCARBONATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPDGENE 2 TEST OBJECT; DENSITY; EFFECT SIZE; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING PHANTOM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ROTATION; SIMULATION; SINOGRAM AFFIRMED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; WEIGHTED FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; X RAY; AIR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; LUNG; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AIR; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 84925951923     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4893498     Document Type: Article

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