Optimization of the CT acquisition protocol to reduce patient dose without compromising the diagnostic quality for PET-CT: A phantom study

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 164-170

  Kumar, Sunil ^a   Pandey, Anil Kumar ^b   Sharma, Punit ^a   Malhotra, Arun ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

computed tomography; dose reduction; PET computed tomography; phantom; tube current

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION DOSE;

ADULT; AGED; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84855189877     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32834e0993     Document Type: Article

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