Arm raising at exposure-controlled multidetector trauma CT of thoracoabdominal region: Higher image quality, lower radiation dose

Radiology

Volumn 249, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 661-670

  Brink, Monique ^a   De Lange, Frank ^a   Oostveen, Luuk J ^a   Dekker, Helena M ^a   Kool, Dignar ^a   Deunk, Jaap ^a   Edwards, Michael J R ^a   Van Kuijk, Cornelis ^b   Kamman, Richard L ^a   Blickman, Johan G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BLUNT TRAUMA; BODY POSTURE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 56149103552     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2492080169     Document Type: Article

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