Effects of adaptive section collimation on patient radiation dose in multisection spiral CT

Radiology

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 140-147

  Deak, Paul D ^a   Langner, Oliver ^a   Lell, Michael ^a   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SECTION COLLIMATION; AIR; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HEART; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNIQUE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THORAX;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 67650067593     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2522081845     Document Type: Article

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