Evolution in computed tomography: The battle for speed and dose

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 629-644

  Lell, Michael M ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^b   Alkadhi, Hatem ^c   Damilakis, John ^d   Kachelriess, Marc ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; CT angiography; detector technology; dose reduction; dual energy CT; dynamic contrast enhanced CT; iterative reconstruction; low kv; metal artifact reduction; perfusion CT

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CANCER STAGING; CARDIAC IMAGING; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; ORGAN PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MONITORING; REVIEW; TUBE CURRENT MODULATION AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE CONTROL; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84939478988     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000172     Document Type: Review

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