Concepts for dose determination in flat-detector CT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3551-3566

  Kyriakou, Yiannis ^a   Deak, Paul ^a   Langner, Oliver ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS;

BASELINE VALUES; CONVERSION FACTOR; CURRENT DEFINITION; DOSE ASSESSMENTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IRRADIATION FIELDS; MEASUREMENTS OF; SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 47649099051     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/13/011     Document Type: Article

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