Combination of a Low-Tube-Voltage Technique With Hybrid Iterative Reconstruction (iDose) Algorithm at Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography

Abstract

We compare the performance of low tube voltage with the hybrid iterative reconstruction (iDose) with standard and low tube voltage with the filtered backprojection (FBP) using phantoms at computed tomographic coronary angiography. In computed tomographic coronary angiography, application of the combined low tube voltage with iDose resulted in significant image quality improvements compared to the low tube voltage with FBP. Image quality was the same or better despite a reduction in the radiation dose by 76% compared with standard tube voltage with FBP.