CT pulmonary angiography: dose reduction via a next generation iterative reconstruction algorithm.

Andreas Philipp SauterThomas KoehlerBernhard BrendelJuliane AicheleJan NeumannPeter B NoëlErnst J RummenyDaniela Muenzel

Published in: Acta radiologica (Stockholm, Sweden : 1987) (2018)

By using IMR, a dose reduction of up to 50% while maintaining satisfactory image quality seems feasible in standard clinical situations, resulting in a mean effective dose of 1.38 mSv for CTPA.

Keyphrases

image quality
computed tomography
dual energy
optical coherence tomography
pulmonary hypertension
machine learning
deep learning
contrast enhanced
neural network