Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores

Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) score is a widely used indicator to determine disease severity and predict the risk of severe cardiac events. However, radiation dose associated with coronary CT scanning for CAC scoring raises concerns, especially for asymptomatic patients. Iterative Reconstruction (IR...

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Main Author: Sun, Zhonghua
Format: Journal Article
Published: Openventio 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24500
http://dx.doi.org/10.17140/HROJ-2-125
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description Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) score is a widely used indicator to determine disease severity and predict the risk of severe cardiac events. However, radiation dose associated with coronary CT scanning for CAC scoring raises concerns, especially for asymptomatic patients. Iterative Reconstruction (IR) technique represents a recently developed image processing approach for reduction of image noise and radiation dose, while improving diagnostic image quality. Despite these advantages over conventional filtered back projection technique, effects of IR techniques on CAC scores remain unclear. This review article aims to provide an overview of clinical applications of IR techniques in coronary CT angiography with a focus on the effects of different IR techniques on CAC score assessment.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-245002019-02-19T05:35:23Z Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores Sun, Zhonghua Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) score is a widely used indicator to determine disease severity and predict the risk of severe cardiac events. However, radiation dose associated with coronary CT scanning for CAC scoring raises concerns, especially for asymptomatic patients. Iterative Reconstruction (IR) technique represents a recently developed image processing approach for reduction of image noise and radiation dose, while improving diagnostic image quality. Despite these advantages over conventional filtered back projection technique, effects of IR techniques on CAC scores remain unclear. This review article aims to provide an overview of clinical applications of IR techniques in coronary CT angiography with a focus on the effects of different IR techniques on CAC score assessment. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24500 http://dx.doi.org/10.17140/HROJ-2-125 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Openventio fulltext
spellingShingle Sun, Zhonghua
Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores
title Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores
title_full Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores
title_fullStr Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores
title_full_unstemmed Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores
title_short Effects of Iterative Reconstruction on the Diagnostic Assesment of Coronary Calcium Scores
title_sort effects of iterative reconstruction on the diagnostic assesment of coronary calcium scores
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24500
http://dx.doi.org/10.17140/HROJ-2-125