Impact of the introduction of 16-row MDCT on image quality and patient dose: Phantom study and multi-centre survey

European Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2866-2874

  Verdun, Francis R ^a   Theumann, Nicolas ^b   Poletti, Pierre Alexandre ^c   Gutierrez, Daniel ^a   Aroua, Abbas ^a   Schnyder, Pierre ^b   Valley, Jean François ^a   Qanadli, Salah D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CTdose survey; Dosereference levels (DRL); Multi slice spiral CT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 37849185586     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0396-x     Document Type: Article

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