Organ-based dose current modulation and thyroid shields: Techniques of radiation dose reduction for neck CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1132-1138

  Hoang, Jenny K ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Choudhury, Kingshuk Roy ^a   Nguyen, Giao B ^a   Toncheva, Greta ^a   Gafton, Andreia R ^a   Eastwood, James D ^a   Lowry, Carolyn ^a   Hurwitz, Lynne M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Neck CT; Organ based dose modulation; Radiation dose reduction; Tube current modulation

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; LENS; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SHIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THYROID RADIATION SHIELD;

BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; NECK; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE; THYROID GLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860324672     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7445     Document Type: Article

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