Computed tomography—an increasing source of radiation exposure

DJ Brenner, EJ Hall - New England journal of medicine, 2007 - Mass Medical Soc
The number of computed tomographic (CT) studies performed is increasing rapidly.
Because CT scans involve much higher doses of radiation than plain films, we are seeing a …

Strategies for reducing radiation dose in CT

CH McCollough, AN Primak, N Braun… - Radiologic …, 2009 - radiologic.theclinics.com
High-end CT systems allow acquisition of isotropic volumetric data sets that permit high
quality reformatted images and images with less than 1 mm slice thickness. These …

CT super-resolution GAN constrained by the identical, residual, and cycle learning ensemble (GAN-CIRCLE)

C You, G Li, Y Zhang, X Zhang, H Shan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a semi-supervised deep learning approach to accurately recover
high-resolution (HR) CT images from low-resolution (LR) counterparts. Specifically, with the …

A sparse-view CT reconstruction method based on combination of DenseNet and deconvolution

Z Zhang, X Liang, X Dong, Y Xie… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) holds great promise for speeding up data
acquisition and reducing radiation dose in CT scans. Recent advances in reconstruction …

CT synthesis from MR in the pelvic area using Residual Transformer Conditional GAN

B Zhao, T Cheng, X Zhang, J Wang, H Zhu… - … medical imaging and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance (MR) image-guided radiation therapy is a hot topic in current radiation
therapy research, which relies on MR to generate synthetic computed tomography (SCT) …

Unsupervised MR-to-CT synthesis using structure-constrained CycleGAN

H Yang, J Sun, A Carass, C Zhao, J Lee… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthesizing a CT image from an available MR image has recently emerged as a key goal
in radiotherapy treatment planning for cancer patients. CycleGANs have achieved promising …

Iterative low-dose CT reconstruction with priors trained by artificial neural network

D Wu, K Kim, G El Fakhri, Q Li - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dose reduction in computed tomography (CT) is essential for decreasing radiation risk in
clinical applications. Iterative reconstruction algorithms are one of the most promising way to …

Recurrent CT, Cumulative Radiation Exposure, and Associated Radiation-induced Cancer Risks from CT of Adults1

A Sodickson, PF Baeyens, KP Andriole, LM Prevedello… - Radiology, 2009 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose: To estimate cumulative radiation exposure and lifetime attributable risk (LAR) of
radiation-induced cancer from computed tomographic (CT) scanning of adult patients at a …

Guidelines for Management of Small Pulmonary Nodules Detected on CT Scans: A Statement from the Fleischner Society1

H MacMahon, JHM Austin, G Gamsu, CJ Herold… - Radiology, 2005 - pubs.rsna.org
Lung nodules are detected very commonly on computed tomographic (CT) scans of the
chest, and the ability to detect very small nodules improves with each new generation of CT …

Iterative reconstruction technique for reducing body radiation dose at CT: feasibility study

AK Hara, RG Paden, AC Silva… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the image noise, low-contrast
resolution, image quality, and spatial resolution of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction …