Development of an online automatic computed radiography dose data mining program: A preliminary study

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-52

  Ng, Curtise K C ^a   Sun, Zhonghua ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALARA; Computed radiography; Data mining program; Exposure index; PACS; Radiation dose monitoring

Indexed keywords

ALARA; AS LOW AS REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE; COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; CR IMAGES; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; MONITORING PROCESS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; PICTURE ARCHIVING; RADIATION DOSE; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CREEP; DOSIMETRY; MONITORING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY;

PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA MINING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE MONITORING; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARDIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 73449134771     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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