High-pitch spiral computed tomography: Effect on image quality and radiation dose in pediatric chest computed tomography

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-123

  Lell, Michael M ^a   May, Matthias ^a   Deak, Paul ^a   Alibek, Sedat ^a   Kuefner, Michael ^a   Kuettner, Axel ^a   Köhler, Henrik ^b   Achenbach, Stephan ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Radkow, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

chest; computed tomography; dual source CT; pediatric; radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RIB; SEDATION; SPINE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX;

EID: 78751615956     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181f33b1d     Document Type: Article

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