Table 2. L2 bone mineral density and their statistics under different mAs and different iterative algorithms.
Algorithms | 20 mAs | 30 mAs | 40 mAs | 50 mAs | 60 mAs | P |
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FBP | 97.94 | 98.29 | 98.23 | 98.57 | 98.08 | 0.146 |
iDose4 [1] | 101.83 | 100.4 | 100.27 | 100.13 | 99.51 | 0.137 |
iDose4 [2] | 101.44 | 101.12 | 100.4 | 99.88 | 99.75 | 0.37 |
iDose4 [3] | 101.77 | 100.87 | 99.81 | 100.39 | 100.04 | 0.163 |
iDose4 [4] | 101.42 | 100.45 | 100.05 | 100.49 | 100.28 | 0.12 |
iDose4 [5] | 101.62 | 101.25 | 99.85 | 100.68 | 99.71 | 0.129 |
iDose4 [6] | 101.84 | 101.21 | 100.45 | 99.92 | 99.45 | 0.064 |
IMR [1] | 100.85 | 99.49 | 99.19 | 99.15 | 99.13 | 0.229 |
IMR [2] | 100.8 | 99.91 | 99.21 | 98.81 | 98.98 | 0.08 |
IMR [3] | 100.15 | 99.23 | 98.75 | 98.77 | 98.65 | 0.194 |
P | 0.051 | 0.061 | 0.076 | 0.079 | 0.075 | – |
FBP, filtered back projection; IMR, iterative model reconstruction.