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. 2016 Nov 23;43(12):6608–6620. doi: 10.1118/1.4967776

TABLE II.

CT imaging protocols for the anthropomorphic liver phantom. Two repeated scans were acquired for each imaging acquisition condition.

	Acquisition parameters				Reconstruction parameters
Scanner	kVp	Eff. mAs	Pitch	Collimation	Slice thickness	Overlap	Recon algorithm	Convolution kernel
GE 750HD	120	50	1.375	64 × 0.625	5	0%	FBP	Standard
		100	0.983		2.5			Soft
		250			1.25
					0.625
Siemens mCT	120	50	1.35	64 × 0.6	5	0%	FBP	B30f
		100	1.0^a	(32 × 0.6 detector width)	3.0			B20f
		250			1.5
					0.6

^{^a}

Only one effective mAs (250) was acquired for pitch 1.0.