The effect of x-ray beam quality and geometry on radiation utilization efficiency in multidetector CT imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1258-1266

  Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Papadakis, Antonios E ^b   Damilakis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; CT dose; CTDI; geometric efficiency; radiation dose profile

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EFFICIENCY; GEOMETRY; PHANTOMS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

BEAM COLLIMATION; CTDI; EXPOSURE PARAMETERS; MODES OF OPERATION; MULTIDETECTOR CT; PATIENT RADIATION DOSE; UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY; X-RAY BEAM QUALITIES;

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GEOMETRY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; X RAY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849171406     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3095768     Document Type: Article

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