Feasibility of thin-slice abdominal CT in overweight patients using a vendor neutral image-based denoising algorithm: Assessment of image noise, contrast, and quality

• Akio Tamura ,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: a.akahane@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-721X

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• Manabu Nakayama,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan

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• Yoshitaka Ota,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Central Radiology, Iwate Medical University Hospital, Morioka, Japan

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• Masayoshi Kamata,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Central Radiology, Iwate Medical University Hospital, Morioka, Japan

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• Yasuyuki Hirota,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Central Radiology, Iwate Medical University Hospital, Morioka, Japan

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• Misato Sone,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan

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• Makoto Hamano,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan

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• Ryoichi Tanaka,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Division of Dental Radiology, Department of General Dentistry, Iwate Medical University School of Dentistry, Morioka, Japan

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• Kunihiro Yoshioka

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan

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