Effective doses to patients from CT acquisitions on the GE Infinia Hawkeye: a comparison of calculation methods

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 144-149

  Sawyer, Laura J ^a   Starritt, Hazel C ^a   Hiscock, Sarah C ^a   Evans, Martyn J ^a  

^a ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Effective dose; Infinia Hawkeye; Nuclear medicine; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37349130964     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3282f258ef     Document Type: Article

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