Calculated organ doses and effective dosage for CT examination of the thorax and abdomen: Are these doses realistic?;Berechnete Organdosen und effektive Dosis für die computertomographische Untersuchung des Thorax und des Abdomens: Sind diese Dosen realistisch?

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Volumn 164, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 382-387

  Hidajat, N ^a,b   Vogl, T ^a   Schroder R J ^a   Felix, R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Conversion factor; Effective dose; Mathematical phantom; Organ dose

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029893419     PISSN: 09366652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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