Potential for radiation dose savings in abdominal and chest CT using automatic tube voltage selection in combination with automatic tube current modulation

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 292-299

  Mayer, Caroline ^a   Meyer, Mathias ^a   Fink, Christian ^a   Schmidt, Bernhard ^b   Sedlmair, Martin ^b   Schoenberg, Stefan O ^a   Henzler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CT Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic tube current modulation; Automatic tube voltage selection; CT; Image quality; Radiation dose reduction

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TUBE CURRENT MODULATION; AUTOMATIC TUBE VOLTAGE SELECTION; CT; IMAGE QUALITY; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION;

AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906506639     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.13.11628     Document Type: Article

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