Technical Note: Estimating absorbed doses to the thyroid in CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3108-3113

  Huda, Walter ^a   Magill, Dennise ^a   Spampinato, Maria V ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; CTDIvol; scan length; Thyroid dose; x ray tube voltage

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DOSIMETRY; PHANTOMS; SCANNING; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; CTDIVOL; RADIOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE; SCAN LENGTH; THYROID DOSE; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79958794325     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3592022     Document Type: Article

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