Influence of exposure parameters and iterative reconstruction on automatic airway segmentation and analysis on MDCT-An ex vivo phantom study.

To evaluate the influence of exposure parameters and raw-data-based iterative reconstruction (IR) on computer-aided segmentation and quantitative analysis of the tracheobronchial tree on multidetector computed tomography (MDCT).10 porcine heart-lung-explants were mounted inside a dedicated chest pha...

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Main Authors: Patricia Leutz-Schmidt, Oliver Weinheimer, Bertram J Jobst, Julien Dinkel, Jürgen Biederer, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Michael U Puderbach, Mark O Wielpütz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5540604?pdf=render