Automated framework for digital radiation dose index reporting from CT dose reports

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1170-1174

  Shih, George ^a   Lu, Zheng Feng ^b,c   Zabih, Ramin ^a   Kennedy, Devin ^d   Loftus, Michael ^a   Shih, Wei Jen ^e   Osborne, Joseph ^a   Nickoloff, Edward ^b   Schwartz, Lawrence ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Radiation dose; Reporting

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SAFETY;

AUTOMATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054892076     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6650     Document Type: Article

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