Dual energy CT of the chest: How about the dose?

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 347-353

  Schenzle, Jan C ^a   Sommer, Wieland H ^a   Neumaier, Klement ^a   Michalski, Gisela ^a   Lechel, Ursula ^b   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a   Becker, Christoph R ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Johnson, Thorsten R C ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast to noise ratio; Dual energy CT; Image noise; Lung perfusion; Radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VENTILATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 77952481687     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181df901d     Document Type: Article

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