Attenuation-based automatic kilovolt selection in abdominal computed tomography: Effects on radiation exposure and image quality

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 559-565

  Eller, Achim ^a   May, Matthias S ^a   Scharf, Michael ^a   Schmid, Axel ^a   Kuefner, Michael ^a   Uder, Michael ^a,b   Lell, Michael M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

computed tomography; dose reduction; image quality; radiation dose; tube potential

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 84866339763     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318260c5d6     Document Type: Article

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