Automated tube potential selection for standard chest and abdominal CT in follow-up patients with testicular cancer: Comparison with fixed tube potential

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1937-1945

  Gnannt, Ralph ^a   Winklehner, Anna ^a   Eberli, Daniel ^a   Knuth, Alexander ^a   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Image quality; Radiation dose; Testicular cancer; Tube potential

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SEMINOMA; SPLEEN; STANDARD; TERATOMA; TESTIS CANCER;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864662302     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2453-y     Document Type: Article

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