Does dual-energy CT of lower-extremity tendons incur penalties in patient radiation exposure or reduced multiplanar reconstruction image quality?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1386-1390

  Lohan, Derek G ^a   Motamedi, Kambiz ^a   Chow, Kira ^a   Habibi, Reza ^a   Panknin, Christoph ^a   Ruehm, Stefan G ^a   Seeger, Leanne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual energy CT; Ionizing radiation; Tendon

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TENDON;

EID: 55549103694     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3624     Document Type: Article

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