Evaluation of coronary plaques characteristics using model-based iterative reconstruction at low-dose cardiac CT

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26461799
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Radiation science
• Research Institution: Kumamoto University
• Principal Investigator: Yuki Hideaki 熊本大学, 医学部附属病院, 特任助教 (90710434)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ODA Seitaro 熊本大学, 大学院生命科学研究部, 特任助教 (80571041)
• Research Collaborator: FUNAMA Yoshinori 熊本大学, 大学院生命科学研究部, 教授 (30380992)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 心臓CT / 逐次近似再構成 / 低管電圧

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Cardiac CT has emerged as a useful diagnostic imaging method for the non-invasive and accurate evaluation of coronary artery disease. Cardiac CT imaging of low-radiation doses with IR technique have some advantage for the evaluation, but has not been fully investigated. The purposes of our study was to assess the image quality at cardiac CT. Low-dose cardiac CT with Iterative Reconstruction technique method has potentials to provide noise-free image and reduction of radiation exposure, reduction of contrast agent volume, and resulting in improvement of diagnostic performance.

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