Pediatric cardiovascular CT angiography: Radiation dose reduction using automatic anatomic tube current modulation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1232-1240

  Herzog, Christopher ^a,b   Mulvihill, Denise M ^a   Nguyen, Shaun A ^a   Savino, Giancarlo ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^c   Costello, Philip ^a   Vogl, Thomas J ^b   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital abnormalities of the chest; CT image quality; CT in infants and children; CT radiation exposure; CT technology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFACTS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 43649107007     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3124     Document Type: Article

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