Image quality and diagnostic accuracy of reduced-dose computed tomography enterography with model-based iterative reconstruction in pediatric Crohn's disease patients.

ABSTRACT: This study assessed the image quality and diagnostic accuracy in determining disease activity of the terminal ileum of the reduced-dose computed tomography enterography using model-based iterative reconstruction in pediatric patients with Crohn's disease (CD). Eighteen patients were prospectively enrolled and allocated to the standard-dose (SD) and reduced-dose (RD) computed tomography enterography (CTE) groups (n = 9 per group). Image quality, reader confidence in interpreting bowel findings, accuracy in determining active CD in the terminal ileum, and radiation dose were evaluated. Objective image quality did not show intergroup differences, except for image sharpness. Although reader confidence in detecting mural stratification, ulcer, and perienteric fat stranding of the RD-CTE were in

SUBMITTER: Lee YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8828853 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature