Patient doses in multi-slice CT and the importance of optimisation

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 86-96

  Heggie, John C P ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

CT; Diagnostic reference levels; Dose survey; Dose length product; Effective dose; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING; SURVEYS;

DOSE-LENGTH PRODUCTS (DLP); LOCAL DIAGNOSTIC REFERENCE LEVELS (LDRL); SIEMENS (CO); SINGLE-SLICE SCANNERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMEN; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY; LIVER HILUS; LUMBAR SPINE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PELVIS; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REFERENCE VALUE; THORAX;

EID: 21844479031     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178698     Document Type: Article

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