The influence of patient centering on CT dose and image noise

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3093-3101

  Toth, Thomas ^a   Ge, Zhanyu ^a   Daly, Michael P ^b  

^a GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCANNING;

CENTER OF ROTATION; CENTERING ERRORS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; PARAMETER SELECTION; PATIENT SPECIFIC; REGRESSION MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; X RAY INTENSITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ERROR; FEMALE; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PARAMETER; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGING PHANTOM; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HUMANS; NOISE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34347401255     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2748113     Document Type: Article

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