Nakamura, Yuko http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3128-4731
Narita, Keigo
Higaki, Toru
Akagi, Motonori
Honda, Yukiko
Awai, Kazuo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canon Medical Systems (A1700878)
Article History
Received: 12 July 2020
Revised: 1 October 2020
Accepted: 26 November 2020
First Online: 3 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Kazuo Awai.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Canon Medical Systems Co. Ltd for Kazuo Awai.The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Our institutional review board approved our study in which we applied 70% of the standard radiation dose plus deep learning reconstruction (DLR) to obtain hepatic dynamic CT scans as an observational study. Hybrid iterative reconstruction (hybrid-IR) and model-based IR (MBIR) images were reconstructed from the existing raw data. Thus, prior informed patient consent was waived.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: • retrospective• diagnostic study• performed at one institution