BMI-Based Radiation Dose Reduction in CT Colonography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 486-492

  Ginsburg, Michael ^a   Obara, Piotr ^a   Wise, Leon ^a   Wroblewski, Kristen ^a   Vannier, Michael W ^a   Dachman, Abraham H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT colonography; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; SUPINE POSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BODY MASS INDEX; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84875062693     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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