Dose reduction in CT by anatomically adapted tube current modulation. II. Phantom measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2248-2253

  Kalender, Willi A ^a   Wolf, Heiko ^a   Suess, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Dose; Image quality; Spiral CT; Tube current modulation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MODULATION; PHANTOMS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CT (COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY); DOSE; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MODULATION AMPLITUDES; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; SINUSOIDAL MODULATION; SPIRAL CT; TUBE CURRENT MODULATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; SHOULDER; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 0032742081     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598738     Document Type: Article

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