Pseudohelical scan for the dose profile measurements of 160-mm-wide cone-beam MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 897-902

  Lin, Pei Jan P ^a   Herrnsdorf, Lars ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RTI Electronics AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cone beam MDCT; CTDI phantom; Pseudohelical scan; Radiation dose profile of MDCT; Radiation dosimetry; Solid state detector for dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 77950605933     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3048     Document Type: Article

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