A method for calculating the dose length product from CT DICOM images

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 84, Issue 999, 2011, Pages 236-243

  Tsalafoutas, I A ^a   Metallidis, S I ^b  

^a Agios Savvas Cancer Hospital   (Greece)

^b Software Development Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; MEDICAL AUDIT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79951880124     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/37630380     Document Type: Article

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