X-ray beam filtration, dosimetry phantom size and CT patient dose conversion factors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 551-561

  Huda, Walter ^a   Sterzik, Alexander ^a   Tipnis, Sameer ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; X RAYS;

AVERAGE VALUES; BETA PARAMETER; CONVERSION FACTOR; PATIENT DOSE; PHANTOM SIZES; SCAN TECHNIQUES; UPWARD TREND; X-RAY BEAM FILTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GROUP DYNAMICS; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; X RAY;

ADULT; HEAD; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERSONAL SPACE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 74549160073     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/2/014     Document Type: Article

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