The influences of tube voltage and scan direction on combined tube current modulation: A phantom study

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 833-840

  Goo, Hyun Woo ^a   Suh, Dong Soo ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dose reduction; Multislice spiral CT; Phantom study; Tube current modulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRICS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUBE CURRENT MODULATION;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; BODY SIZE; CHILD; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33746532552     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-006-0177-3     Document Type: Article

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