Can conclusions drawn from phantom-based image noise assessments be generalized to in vivo studies for the nonlinear model-based iterative reconstruction method?
Gomez-Cardona D, Li K, Hsieh J, Lubner MG, Pickhardt PJ, Chen GH.
Gomez-Cardona D, et al. Among authors: li k.
Med Phys. 2016 Feb;43(2):687-95. doi: 10.1118/1.4939257.
Med Phys. 2016.
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METHODS: One of the most striking results obtained from phantom studies is a novel power-law relationship between noise variance of MBIR (sigma(2)) and tube current-rotation time product (mAs): sigma(2) (mAs)(-0.4) [K. Li et al., "Statistical model based iterative r …
METHODS: One of the most striking results obtained from phantom studies is a novel power-law relationship between noise variance of MBIR (si …