Volume CT dose index and dose-length product displayed during CT: What good are they?

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 236-242

  Huda, Walter ^a   Mettler, Fred A ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEAD; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; NECK; NEWBORN; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RISK; THORAX; X RAY;

EID: 78650629641     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100297     Document Type: Article

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