Effect of contrast material on image noise and radiation dose in adult chest computed tomography using automatic exposure control: A comparative study between 16-, 64- and 128-slice CT

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Paul, Jijo ^a,b   Schell, Boris ^a   Kerl, J Matthias ^a   Maentele, Werner ^b   Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Bauer, Ralf W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

16 slice CT; 64 slice; Automatic exposure control; Chest CT; CT 128 slice; CT contrast material

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE CONTROL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052157106     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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