Technical Note: Precision and accuracy of a commercially available CT optically stimulated luminescent dosimetry system for the measurement of CT dose index

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6580-6584

  Vrieze, Thomas J ^a   Sturchio, Glenn M ^a   McCollough, Cynthia H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography (CT); CT dose index; optically stimulated luminescence; radiation dose profile; radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; LUMINESCENCE;

BODY MEASUREMENTS; CORRECTION FACTORS; ENERGY DEPENDENT; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PARAMETER COMBINATION; PERIPHERAL POSITIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84868597448     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4754591     Document Type: Article

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