Comparison between 3-D and z-axis automatic tube current modulation technique in multidetector-row CT

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 106-111

  Matsubara, K ^a   Koshida, K ^b   Suzuki, M ^b   Tsujii, H ^a   Yamamoto, T ^a   Matsui, O ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 45149121094     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm384     Document Type: Article

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