Routine chest and abdominal high-pitch CT: An alternative low dose protocol with preserved image quality

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Amacker, Nadja A ^a   Mader, Caecilia ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^b   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Radiology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Dual source CT; High pitch; Image quality; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856958470     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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