Performance of an automatic dose control system for CT: Anthropomorphic phantom studies

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 154-162

  Gosch, D ^a   Stumpp, P ^a   Kahn, T ^a   Nagel, H D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Wissenschaft and Technik für Die Radiologie ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; physics; radiation safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROL SYSTEM; DEVICE; FILTRATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ABDOMEN; ANTHROPOMETRY; FILTRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; SOFTWARE; SPIRAL CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; THORAX;

EID: 79551521107     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: 14389010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245730     Document Type: Article

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