The effect of z overscanning on patient effective dose from multidetector helical computed tomography examinations

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1621-1629

  Tzedakis, A ^a   Damilakis, J ^a   Perisinakis, K ^a   Stratakis, J ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; BEAM COLLIMATION; HELICAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; MONTE CARLO N PARTICLES; PENCIL IONIZATION CHAMBERS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCANNING PARAMETERS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; COLLIMATOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21144440833     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1924309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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