Patient dose estimation for multi-detector-row CT examinations

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 98-105

  Nishizawa, Kanae ^a   Mori, Shin Ichiro ^a   Ohno, Mari ^a   Yanagawa, Noriyuki ^b   Yoshida, Takashi ^c   Akahane, Keiichi ^a   Iwai, Kazuo ^d   Wada, Shin ichi ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THORAX;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 45149119380     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm244     Document Type: Article

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