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Dose reduction for CT coronary calcium scoring with a calcium-aware image reconstruction technique: a phantom study

OBJECTIVE: To assess the dose reduction potential of a calcium-aware reconstruction technique, which aims at tube voltage-independent computed tomography (CT) numbers for calcium. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A cardiothoracic phantom, mimicking three different patient sizes, was scanned with two calcium i...

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Autores principales: Booij, Ronald, van der Werf, Niels R., Budde, Ricardo P. J., Bos, Daniel, van Straten, Marcel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32072259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06709-9