Bismuth shielding, organ-based tube current modulation, and global reduction of tube current for dose reduction to the eye at head CT

Radiology

Volumn 262, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 191-198

  Wang, Jia ^a   Duan, Xinhui ^a   Christner, Jodie A ^a   Leng, Shuai ^a   Grant, Katharine L ^b   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BISMUTH SHIELDING; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GLOBAL REDUCTION OF TUBE CURRENT; HEAD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENS; ORGAN BASED TUBE CURRENT MODULATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SHIELD;

ARTIFACTS; BISMUTH; EYE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84455167815     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110470     Document Type: Article

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