Chest CT using spectral filtration: radiation dose, image quality, and spectrum of clinical utility

European Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1598-1606

  Braun, Franziska M ^a   Johnson, Thorsten R C ^a   Sommer, Wieland H ^a   Thierfelder, Kolja M ^a   Meinel, Felix G ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pneumonia; Radiation dose; Spectral filtration; Thorax; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIGURE OF MERIT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PLEURA DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIZE SPECIFIC DOSE ESTIMATE; SPECTRAL FILTRATION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84930002836     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3559-1     Document Type: Article

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