Metallic dental artifact reduction in computed tomography (Smart MAR): Improvement of image quality and diagnostic confidence in patients with suspected head and neck pathology and oral implants

摘要

Purpose: We determined whether the Smart MAR metal artifact reduction tool - a three-stage, projection-based, post processing algorithm - improves subjective and objective image quality and diagnostic confidence in patients with dental artifacts and suspected head and neck pathology compared to standard adaptive statistical iterative reconstructions (ASIR V) alone.