Dental flat panel conebeam CT in the evaluation of patients with inflammatory sinonasal disease: Diagnostic efficacy and radiation dose savings

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2052-2057

  Leiva Salinas, C ^a,b   Flors, L ^a,b   Gras, P ^a   Mas Estelles F ^a   Lemercier, P ^a   Patrie, J T ^b   Wintermark, M ^a,b   Marti Bonmati L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM FLUORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL CONEBEAM COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE NOISE; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PAROTID GLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THYROID GLAND; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SINUSITIS;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUSES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84911933771     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A4019     Document Type: Article

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