Radiation dose reduction with hybrid iterative reconstruction for pediatric CT

Radiology

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 537-546

  Singh, Sarabjeet ^a   Kalra, Mannudeep K ^a   Shenoy Bhangle, Anuradha S ^a   Saini, Aashna ^a   Gervais, Debra A ^a   Westra, Sjirk J ^a   Thrall, James H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862490176     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12110268     Document Type: Article

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