Radiation dose estimations to the thorax using organ-based dose modulation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lungren, Matthew P ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Brady, Samuel M ^a   Toncheva, Greta ^a   Anderson Evans, Colin ^a   Lowry, Carolyn ^a   Zhou, Xiaodong R ^b   Frush, Donald ^a   Hurwitz, Lynne M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; CT; Dose; Organ based dose modulation; Thoracic CT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FILM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; ORGAN BASED DOSE MODULATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THORAX; TUBE CURRENT MODULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863677542     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7798     Document Type: Article

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