The effect of angular and longitudinal tube current modulations on the estimation of organ and effective doses in x-ray computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4881-4889

  Van Straten, Marcel ^a   Deak, Paul ^a   Shrimpton, Paul C ^b   Kalender, Willi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Monte Carlo; Radiation dosimetry; Tube current modulation; Voxelized phantom

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ANGULAR-MODULATION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MONTE CARLO DOSIMETRY; PATIENT RADIATION DOSE; TUBE CURRENT MODULATIONS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY;

EID: 70350722097     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3231948     Document Type: Article

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