Effect of automatic tube voltage selection on image quality and radiation dose in abdominal CT angiography of various body sizes: A phantom study

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Schindera, S T ^a,b   Winklehner, A ^c   Alkadhi, H ^c   Goetti, R ^c   Fischer, M ^c   Gnannt, R ^c   Szucs Farkas, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BODY SIZE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AUTOMATION; BODY SIZE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84872168175     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: 1365229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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