Effect of patient centering on patient dose and image noise in chest CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 123-130

  Kaasalainen, Touko ^a,b   Palmu, Kirsi ^a,c   Reijonen, Vappu ^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; Off centering; Optimization; Size specific dose estimate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CHEST CT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; OFF-CENTERING; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIZE-SPECIFIC DOSE ESTIMATE; STANDARD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST CT; IMAGE QUALITY; OFF-CENTERING; OPTIMIZATION; SIZE-SPECIFIC DOSE ESTIMATE;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906089888     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.12028     Document Type: Article

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