Use of BMI Guidelines and Individual Dose Tracking to Minimize Radiation Exposure from Low-dose Helical Chest CT Scanning in a Lung Cancer Screening Program

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-88

  Manowitz, Amy ^a   Sedlar, Marija ^a   Griffon, Mark ^a   Miller, Albert ^a   Miller, Jeffrey ^a   Markowitz, Steven ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging technology, computed tomography; Imaging technology, spiral CT; Organ systems, respiratory system; Special interests, helical CT; Special interests, image quality; Special interests, public health screening; Special interests, screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; BODY MASS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGIST; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX;

BODY BURDEN; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEW YORK; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 82955184663     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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