Effect of vertical positioning on organ dose, image noise and contrast in pediatric chest CT - Phantom study

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 673-684

  Kaasalainen, Touko ^a,b   Palmu, Kirsi ^a,c   Lampinen, Anniina ^a,b   Kortesniemi, Mika ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chest; CT; Image quality; MOSFET; Off centering; Optimization; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETER; ESOPHAGUS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SALIVARY GLAND; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID GLAND;

CHILD; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PRONE POSITION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878553949     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-012-2611-z     Document Type: Article

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