Does a combination of dose modulation with fast gantry rotation time limit CT image quality?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 140-144

  Israel, Gary M ^a   Herlihy, Summer ^a   Rubinowitz, Ami N ^a   Cornfeld, Daniel ^a   Brink, James ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; CT technique; Dose modulation; Gantry rotation time; MDCT; Tube current

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; X RAY TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 46849084564     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3019     Document Type: Article

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