Improving image quality of triple-low-protocol renal artery CT angiography with deep-learning image reconstruction: a comparative study with standard-dose single-energy and dual-energy CT with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction.

Journal: Clinical radiology
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Abstract

AIM: To investigate the improvement in image quality of triple-low-protocol (low radiation, low contrast medium dose, low injection speed) renal artery computed tomography (CT) angiography (RACTA) using deep-learning image reconstruction (DLIR), in comparison with standard-dose single- and dual-energy CT (DECT) using adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction-Veo (ASIR-V) algorithm.

Authors

  • Z Meng
    Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Tianhe District, Tianhe Road, 600, Guangzhou, 510620, China.
  • Y Guo
    Pingan Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Institute for Smart Health, Intelligent Medical Image Analysis, Shenzhen 518046, China.
  • S Deng
    Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Tianhe District, Tianhe Road, 600, Guangzhou, 510620, China.
  • Q Xiang
    Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Tianhe District, Tianhe Road, 600, Guangzhou, 510620, China.
  • J Cao
  • Y Zhang
    University Technology Sydney, 15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW Australia.
  • K Zhang
    Department of Computer Science, Bioinformatics Facility of Xavier NIH RCMI Cancer Research Center, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, 70125, USA.
  • K Ma
    Department of Pathology, School of Basic Medical Science, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, Hunan, China.
  • S Xie
    Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre, Sun Yat-sen University, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Guangzhou 510060, China.
  • Z Kang
    Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Tianhe District, Tianhe Road, 600, Guangzhou, 510620, China. Electronic address: kzkz_kzkz@126.com.