Reduced radiation exposure for face transplant surgical planning computed tomography angiography.

To test the hypothesis that wide area detector face transplant surgical planning CT angiograms with simulated lower radiation dose and iterative reconstruction (AIDR3D) are comparable in image quality to those with standard tube current and filtered back projection (FBP) reconstruction.The sinograms...

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Main Authors: Kurt Schultz, Elizabeth George, Katherine M Mullen, Michael L Steigner, Dimitrios Mitsouras, Ericka M Bueno, Bohdan Pomahac, Frank J Rybicki, Kanako K Kumamaru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3637203?pdf=render