Low-kilovoltage, high-tube-current MDCT of liver in thin adults: Pilot study evaluating radiation dose, image quality, and display settings

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1332-1338

  Nakaura, Takeshi ^a,b   Awai, Kazuo ^b   Oda, Seitaro ^b   Funama, Yoshinori ^b   Harada, Kazunori ^a   Uemura, Shouzaburou ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a AMAKUSA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; Image quality; Low kilovoltage; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER CANCER; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PILOT STUDY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY SIZE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960546944     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5698     Document Type: Article

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