Low-dose CT coronary angiography using iterative reconstruction with a 256-slice CT scanner
Author(s) -
Patrícia Carrascosa,
Gastón A. Rodríguez-Granillo,
Carlos Capuñay,
Alejandro Deviggiano
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
world journal of cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1949-8462
DOI - 10.4330/wjc.v5.i10.382
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation dose , nuclear medicine , coronary angiography , image quality , image noise , radon transform , iterative reconstruction , effective dose (radiation) , tomography , interpretability , angiography , population , radiology , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , environmental health , myocardial infarction , computer science
To explore whether computer tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) using iterative reconstruction (IR) leads to significant radiation dose reduction without a significant loss in image interpretability compared to conventional filtered back projection (FBP).
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