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A Five-Year Retrospective Analysis of Dose Reduction for the Top 10 Adult CT Protocols

Authors: Emi Ai Eastman, Christina Lee, Xinhua Li, Yifang (Jimmy) Zhou

Affiliation: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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This study aimed to retrospectively evaluate dose reduction efforts in past five years using acquisition-level data and to compare the results with ACR achievable dose (AD) and dose refere...

Achieving Consistent Calcium Score in Lung Cancer Screening: Influence of Cardiac Phases

Authors: Emi Ai Eastman, Chao Guo, Christina Lee, Xinhua Li, Alexander W. Scott, Yifang (Jimmy) Zhou

Affiliation: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Smoking is one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease. It is desirable to estimate the coronary artery calcification (CAC), a key biomarker for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular ...

Contrast-Dependent Loss of Edge Sharpness in Low-Contrast Targets with Increasing Iterative Reconstruction Strength

Authors: Emi Ai Eastman, Christina Lee, Xinhua Li, Alexander W. Scott, Yifang (Jimmy) Zhou

Affiliation: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Abstract Preview: Purpose: Iterative reconstruction (IR) methods are valuable for reducing dose in modern CT; however, IR methods have the effect of reducing spatial resolution and hence the lesion edge sharpness. Furt...

Redesigning the CT Protocol Intranet: Solutions for Improved Access and User Engagement

Authors: Emi Ai Eastman, Vu Nguyen, Alexander W. Scott, Lucien Zang, Yifang (Jimmy) Zhou

Affiliation: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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Three key features were developed to substantially improve a previously in-house developed CT protocol website: a structured backend for efficient protocol creation and edit; the ability t...