Effective dose and image quality evaluations of an automatic CT tube current modulation system with an anthropomorphic phantom

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 181-187

  Rampado, O ^a   Marchisio, F ^b   Izzo, A ^a   Garelli, E ^a   Bianchi, C C ^b   Gandini, G ^b   Ropolo, R ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic exposure; Computed tomography; Image quality; Patient dose

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PARAMETERS; ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURRENT MODULATION; EFFECTIVE DOSE; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY EVALUATION; LIGHTSPEED; NOISE INDEX; PATIENT DOSE; PITCH VALUES; PIXEL PITCH; REGION OF INTEREST; TUBE CURRENTS; VOLUMETRIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE QUALITY; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MODULATION; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

QUALITY CONTROL;

ABDOMEN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; MODULATION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SHOULDER;

BODY BURDEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 70349778129     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2008.06.027     Document Type: Article

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