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Table 1 Scanning and reconstruction parameters, investigated phantoms and image quality parameters used in this study

From: Correlation of clinical and physical-technical image quality in chest CT: a human cadaver study applied on iterative reconstruction

Fixed scan parameters

CTDI(vol)

Reconstruction parameters for each CTDI(vol)

Scanned objects

Investigated image quality parameters

Thiel/Catphan

Thiel

Catphan

120 kVp

0.84 / 0.84

B70

Thiel cadavers (3)

VGAS

Noise

0.9 pitch

2.11 / 2.05

I70/1

Catphan phantom

 

IQFinv

3 mm reconstruction thickness

4.19 / 4.08

I70/3

  

CNR

 

6.37 / 6.18

I70/5

   
 

8.82 / 8.35

    
 

12.23 / 11.59

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