A noise-optimized virtual monoenergetic reconstruction algorithm improves the diagnostic accuracy of late hepatic arterial phase dual-energy CT for the detection of hypervascular liver lesions.

Carlo N De CeccoDamiano CarusoJoseph Uwe SchoepfDomenico De SantisGiuseppe MuscogiuriMoritz H AlbrechtFelix G MeinelJulian L WichmannPhilip F BurchettAkos Varga-SzemesDouglas H SheaforAndrew D Hardie

Published in: European radiology (2018)

• Low-keV VMI+ are characterized by higher contrast resulting from maximum iodine attenuation. • VMI+ provides superior image quality compared with VMI or M_0.6. • 50-keV_VMI+ provides higher accuracy for the detection of hypervascular liver lesions < 1cm.

Keyphrases

dual energy
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label free
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machine learning
magnetic resonance
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deep learning
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