Dose profiles for lung and breast regions at prospective and retrospective CT coronary angiography using optically stimulated luminescence dosimeters on a 64-detector CT scanner

Physica Medica

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-82

  Funama, Yoshinori ^a   Taguchi, Katsuyuki ^b   Utsunomiya, Daisuke ^c   Oda, Seitaro ^c   Murasaki, Hiroo ^d   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^d   Awai, Kazuo ^e  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CTCA; Dose profile; OSL dosimeter; Prospective mode; Retrospective mode

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DOSIMETER; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GATED IMAGING; LUNG; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; PHANTOM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BREAST; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; LUNG; MALE; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 83555172535     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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