CT effective dose per dose length product using ICRP 103 weighting factors

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1261-1265

  Huda, Walter ^a   Magill, Dennise ^a   He, Wenjun ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; dose length product; effective dose

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DOSIMETRY; TISSUE;

BEAM WIDTHS; BODY REGIONS; CONVERSION FACTOR; CORRECTION FACTORS; DOSE-LENGTH PRODUCTS; EFFECTIVE DOSE; WEIGHTING FACTORS; WHOLE BODY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952181279     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3544350     Document Type: Article

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