Prospective evaluation of image quality with use of a patient image gallery for dose reduction in pediatric 16-MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 467-473

  Honnef, Dagmar ^a   Wildberger, Joachim E ^a   Haras, Gabriel ^b   Hohl, Christian ^a   Staatz, Gundula ^c   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dose; Image quality; MDCT; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38849092675     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3057     Document Type: Article

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