Dose reduction in multislice computed tomography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 140-147

  Hundt, Walter ^a   Rust, Friedemann ^a   Stäbler, Axel ^a   Wolff, Heiko ^b   Suess, Christoph ^b   Reiser, Maximillian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose reduction; Image quality; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

DOSE REDUCTION; FOLLOW UP; IMAGE NOISE; LINE MODULATION; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS; SUBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; TUBE CURRENTS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 13244284587     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rct.0000151188.72850.0d     Document Type: Article

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