Effect of low tube voltage on image quality, radiation dose, and low-contrast detectability at abdominal multidetector CT: Phantom study

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tang, Kun ^a   Wang, Ling ^b   Li, Rui ^a   Lin, Jie ^a   Zheng, Xiangwu ^a   Cao, Guoquan ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; ABDOMEN; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ABDOMEN; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84861083657     PISSN: 11107243     EISSN: 11107251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/130169     Document Type: Article

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