Fetal radiation dose during gestation estimated on an anthropomorphic phantom for three generations of CT scanners

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1133-1137

  Gilet, Anthony G ^a   Dunkin, Jared M ^a   Fernandez, Thomas J ^a   Button, Terry M ^a   Budorick, Nancy E ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated tube current modulation mode; Fetal imaging; MDCT; Radiation dose; Women's imaging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL RADIATION DOSE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS ANGIOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; POSITION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN EXPOSURE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ANGIOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; PELVIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PELVIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79959594214     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4497     Document Type: Article

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