Organ doses to adult patients for chest CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 842-847

  Huda, Walter ^a   Sterzik, Alexander ^a   Tipnis, Sameer ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest CT; CTDI; Organ dose; Patient weight

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DOSIMETRY; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; THYMUS; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

ANATOMICAL LOCATIONS; CHEST CT; CTDI; ORGAN DOSE; PATIENT WEIGHT; PRACTICAL METHOD; X-RAY TECHNIQUES; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 75749121917     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3298015     Document Type: Article

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