Delineation of temporal bone anatomy: Feasibility of low-dose 64-row CT in regard to image quality

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2638-2645

  Lutz, Jürgen ^a   Jäger, Vanessa ^a   Hempel, Martin John ^a   Srivastav, Sudesh ^b   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Jäger, Lorenz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Radiation dose; Temporal bone anatomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL BONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TEMPORAL BONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41949123776     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0578-1     Document Type: Article

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