Open AccessDijagnosticki kvalitet slike CT pregleda grudnog kosa
Author(s) -
Olivera Šveljo,
Ž. Markovic,
Branimir Reljin,
Robert Semnic,
Miloš Lučić,
Oto Adjić,
Tatjana Stošić-Opinćal,
Mladen Prvulović
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
acta chirurgica iugoslavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0887
pISSN - 0354-950X
DOI - 10.2298/aci0703099s
Subject(s) - medicine , nuclear medicine , image quality , radiology , spiral (railway) , scanner , protocol (science) , artificial intelligence , pathology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , computer science , image (mathematics) , alternative medicine
The paper is aimed at determining diagnostic quality of the images in different chest CT examination protocols. Two groups of patients underwent scanning based on two different protocols using Siemens Somatom 4 Plus scanner in the spiral mode. The study included the total of 64 patients divided in two groups according to their body weight (BW). Group one included 34 patients weighing above 80 kg and they were scanned according to the standard protocol. Group two comprised 30 patients weighting below 80 kg and they were scanned using the same protocol however with reduction of tube current of 13 mA. All the scans were subsequently reconstructed using noise-reduction filter (enhancement of low contrast resolution).