Organ and effective doses in newborn patients during helical multislice computed tomography examination

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5151-5166

  Staton, Robert J ^a,c   Lee, Choonik ^a   Lee, Choonsik ^a   Williams, Matt D ^a,d   Hintenlang, David E ^a   Arreola, Manuel M ^b   Williams, Jonathon L ^b   Bolch, Wesley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^d Mobile Infirmary Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI SLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MSCT) SCANNER; NORMALIZATION; TOMOGRAPHIC PHANTOM; TUBE POTENTIALS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; RADIOLOGY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; HEAD; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEWBORN; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX; X RAY FILM;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 33749622790     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/20/005     Document Type: Article

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