Estimating patient dose from x-ray tube output metrics: Automated measurement of patient size from CT images enables largescale size-specific dose estimates

Radiology

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 472-480

  Ikuta, Ichiro ^a,b,c   Warden, Graham I ^a,b,d   Andriole, Katherine P ^a,b   Khorasani, Ramin ^a,b   Sodickson, Aaron ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NORWALK HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BODY SIZE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; X RAY TUBE; X RAY TUBE OUTPUT METRIC;

ADULT; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAYS;

EID: 84893488494     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122727     Document Type: Article

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