Impact of new technologies on dose reduction in CT

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-35

  Lee, Ting Yim ^a   Chhem, Rethy K ^b  

^a GE HEALTHCARE   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automatic exposure control; Dual source CT; High pitch helical scanning; Iterative image reconstruction techniques; X ray tube current modulation, ECG gating

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE CONTROL; DUAL SOURCE; HELICAL SCANNING; ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; X-RAY TUBE CURRENT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PERMITTIVITY; SCANNING; X RAY TUBES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE ITERATIVE DOSE REDUCTION; ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE CONTROL SYSTEM; BODY SIZE; CANCER RISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUAL SOURCE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH PITCH HELICAL SCANNING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION IN IMAGE SPACE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL BASED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM CORRELATED MODULATION OF TUBE CURRENT; PROSPECTIVE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM GATED AXIAL SCANNING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77957551489     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2010.06.036     Document Type: Article

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