Phantom studies for possible dose reduction in CT head procedures

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 326-331

  Staniszewska, Maria A ^a   Obrzut, Marzanna ^b   Rybka, Krzysztof ^c  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b Regional Hospital Rzeszow   (Poland)

^c POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE RESPONSE; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; NEUROIMAGING; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21244461172     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch571     Document Type: Article

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