Attenuation-based automatic tube voltage selection and tube current modulation for dose reduction at contrast-enhanced liver CT

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 437-447

  Lee, Kyung Hee ^a   Lee, Jeong Min ^a   Moon, Sung Kyoung ^a   Baek, Jee Hyun ^a   Park, Ji Hoon ^a   Flohr, Thomas G ^b   Kim, Kyung Won ^a   Kim, Soo Jin ^a   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Choi, Byung Ihn ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC TUBE CURRENT MODULATION; AUTOMATIC TUBE VOLTAGE SELECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE LENGTH PRODUCT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHTED VOLUME CT DOSE INDEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867914269     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12112434     Document Type: Article

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