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Table 4 Potential dose reduction for different clinical and physical image quality parameters and different iterations steps

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

 

Potential dose reduction (p-value)

Reconstruction kernel

VGAS

Noise

IQFinv

CNRteflon

I70/1

0 % (0.887)

14.0 % (<0.001)

22.7 % (0.034)

16.0 % (<0.001)

I70/3

27.0 % (0.021)

31.4 % (<0.001)

23.0 % (0.031)

35.8% (<0.001)

I70/5

37.4 % (0.001)

67.8 % (<0.001)

50.6 % (<0.001)

71.5 % (<0.001)