Comparison of organ doses and image quality between CT and flat panel XperCT scans in wrist and inner ear examinations

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 139, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 164-168

  Damet, J ^a   Sans Merce, M ^a   Mieville F ^a   Becker, M ^b   Poletti, P A ^b   Verdun, F R ^a   Baechler, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INNER EAR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WRIST; X RAY FILM;

EAR, INNER; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WRIST; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 77953346524     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncq062     Document Type: Article

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