Low-dose spine CT: Optimisation and clinical implementation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 169-172

  Abul Kasim, Kasim ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CURVATURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953345785     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncp306     Document Type: Article

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