The effect of dose reductions on lesion detection in head CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7258, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Elojeimy, Saeed ^a   Huda, Walter ^a   Ogden, Kent M ^b   Owen, Ryan ^a   Samei, Ehsan ^c   Rumboldt, Zoran ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AFC; Dose reduction; Lesion detection; mAs

Indexed keywords

AFC; BASAL GANGLIA; CT IMAGE; DETECTION ACCURACY; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DOSE REDUCTION; LESION DETECTION; LESION SIZE; LOW CONTRAST LESIONS; MAS; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION PACKAGES; TUBE CURRENTS; X RAY INTENSITY; X-RAY BEAM INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; RANGE FINDING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 66749176772     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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