Dosimetric and image quality assessment of different acquisition protocols of a novel 64 slices CT scanner

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vite, Cristina ^a   Mangini, Monica ^a   Strocchi, Sabina ^a   Novario, Raffaele ^b   Tanzi, Fabio ^a   Carrafiello, Gianpaolo ^b   Conte, Leopoldo ^b   Fugazzola, Carlo ^b  

^a University Hospital of Insubria   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Image quality; Multislice CT

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

IMAGING PROTOCOLS; MULTISLICE CT; PATIENT DOSE INDEXES; PHANTOMS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745430676     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.650618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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