Dual Energy Versus Single Energy MDCT: Measurement of Radiation Dose Using Adult Abdominal Imaging Protocols

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1400-1407

  Ho, Lisa M ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Hurwitz, Lynne M ^a   Nelson, Rendon C ^a   Marin, Daniele ^a   Toncheva, Greta ^a   Schindera, Sebastian T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic CT; Dual Energy CT; liver CT; renal CT; Virtual Non contrast image reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUMBAR SPINE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKIN; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; STOMACH;

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISCERA;

EID: 70349759467     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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