Overranging in multisection CT: Quantification and relative contribution to dose - Comparison of four 16-section CT scanners

Radiology

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 208-216

  Van Der Molen, Aart J ^a   Geleijns, Jacob ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; ROTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TESTIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID GLAND;

BODY BURDEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845655515     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2421051350     Document Type: Article

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