Pediatric CT: Strategies to lower radiation dose

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 200, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 950-956

  Zacharias, Claudia ^a   Alessio, Adam M ^b   Otto, Randolph K ^b   Iyer, Ramesh S ^b   Philips, Grace S ^b   Swanson, Jonathan O ^b   Thapa, Mahesh M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Pediatric; Radiation

Indexed keywords

CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SHIELD; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOMETRY;

BODY BURDEN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879295875     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.9026     Document Type: Review

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