Dose reduction in CT. The time is now

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1201-1202

  Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956469396     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.08.001     Document Type: Editorial

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