Low-dose CT for patients with clinically suspected acute appendicitis: optimal strength of sinogram affirmed iterative reconstruction for image quality and diagnostic performance.

CONCLUSION: Although measured noise declined as SAFIRE strength increased, S3 seems optimal for the best subjective image quality on LDCT30mAs. The diagnostic performance of LDCT30mAs with any strength is comparable to that of LDCT100mAs for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. PMID: 25118330 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Acta Radiologica - August 12, 2014 Category: Radiology Authors: Kim SH, Yoon JH, Lee JH, Lim YJ, Kim OH, Ryu JH, Son JH Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research