Multi-slice computed tomography (MCST): The dose challenge on the new revolution

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 303-307

  Golding, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; UROGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOMETRY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21244482157     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch545     Document Type: Article

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