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Image Noise Reduction Filters

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Radiation Dose from Multidetector CT

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With the expanding use of CT and growing concerns for radiation related risks, several efforts have been made in scientific community to lower radiation dose without compromising the image quality (Berrington de González et al. Arch Intern Med 169:2071–2077, 2009; Schauer and Linton Health Phys 97:1–5, 2009; UNSCEAR Health Phys 79(3):314, 2000). In this chapter, we discuss application of image post processing filters to low radiation dose CT, as one of the technical advances for lowering radiation dose.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Sarabjeet Singh & Mannudeep K. Kalra

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    Denis Tack

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Fruit St. 55, Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    Mannudeep K. Kalra

  3. Hôspital Erasme, Department of Radiology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, Brussels, 1070, Belgium

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Singh, S., Kalra, M.K. (2011). Image Noise Reduction Filters. In: Tack, D., Kalra, M., Gevenois, P. (eds) Radiation Dose from Multidetector CT. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2011_460

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