Reducing radiation dose at CT colonography: Decreasing tube voltage to 100 kVp

Radiology

Volumn 266, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 791-800

  Chang, Kevin J ^a   Caovan, Dominique B ^a   Grand, David J ^a   Huda, Walter ^b   Mayo Smith, William W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BODY POSTURE; BODY SIZE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOSE LENGTH PRODUCT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMED CONSENT; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPINE POSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUBE VOLTAGE; VOLUME CT DOSE INDEX; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGED; BODY BURDEN; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGMOID DISEASES;

EID: 84874301989     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12120134     Document Type: Article

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