Metallic prosthesis: Technique to avoid increase in CT radiation dose with automatic tube current modulation in a phantom and patients

Radiology

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 671-675

  Dalal, Tejas ^a,d   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^c   Rizzo, Stefania M R ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Suess, Christoph ^b   Flohr, Thomas ^b   Blake, Michael A ^a   Saini, Sanjay ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 22544475284     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2362041565     Document Type: Review

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