CT-automatic exposure control devices: What are their performances?

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 580, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 990-995

  Gutierrez, Daniel ^a   Schmidt, Sabine ^b   Denys, Alban ^b   Schnyder, Pierre ^b   Bochud, François O ^a   Verdun, Francis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic exposure control (AEC); Computed tomography (CT); Image quality; Optimization; Patient dose

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE CONTROL (AEC); NOISE INDEX; PATIENT DOSES; TUBE CURRENT MODULATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548501348     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.117     Document Type: Article

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