Dose Reduction in Pediatric Computed Tomography with Automated Exposure Control

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 690-693

  Alibek, Sedat ^a   Brand, Martin ^b   Suess, Christoph ^c   Wuest, Wolfgang ^a   Uder, Michael ^a   Greess, Holger ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Neurology Department   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d Kreiskliniken Esslingen   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dose reduction; Image quality; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THORAX;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955603841     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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