State of the Art: Iterative CT reconstruction techniques1

Radiology

Volumn 276, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 339-357

  Geyer, Lucas L ^a,f   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a   Meinel, Felix G ^a,f   Nance, John W ^a,g   Bastarrika, Gorka ^b   Leipsic, Jonathon A ^c   Paul, Narinder S ^d   Rengo, Marco ^e   Laghi, Andrea ^e   De Cecco, Carlo N ^a,e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC UROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL FILTERING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84938703753     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2015132766     Document Type: Review

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