Dose reduction at CT of the lumbar spine using a 320-detector row scanner: Initial results;Réduction de dose dans l'exploration du rachis lombaire grâce au scanner 320-détecteurs: Étude initiale

Journal de Radiologie

Volumn 91, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 779-785

  Gervaise, A ^a   Louis, M ^a   Batch, T ^a   Loeuille, D ^b   Noel, A ^c   Guillemin, F ^a   Blum, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^b CHU NANCY BRABOIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

320 detector row; CT; Dose; Lumbar spine; Reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; AGE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958594720     PISSN: 02210363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0221-0363(10)70115-3     Document Type: Article

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