Comparison of patient doses in 256-slice CT and 16-slice CT scanners

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 937, 2006, Pages 56-61

  Mori, Shinichiro ^a,b,c   Endo, M ^a   Nishizawa, K ^a   Murase, K ^b   Fujiwara, H ^b   Tanada, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 31544447424     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/39775216     Document Type: Article

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