Automated attenuation-based tube potential selection for thoracoabdominal computed tomography angiography: Improved dose effectiveness

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 767-773

  Winklehner, Anna ^a   Goetti, Robert ^a   Baumueller, Stephan ^a   Karlo, Christoph ^b   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Raupach, Rainer ^b   Flohr, Thomas ^a   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

angiography; attenuation; computed tomography; radiation dose; tube potential

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX;

EID: 81855170190     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3182266448     Document Type: Article

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