Pediatric CT dose reduction for suspected appendicitis: A practice quality improvement project using artificial gaussian noise-part 2, clinical outcomes

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 636-644

  Callahan, Michael J ^a   Anandalwar, Seema P ^a   MacDougall, Robert D ^a   Stamoulis, Catherine ^a   Kleinman, Patricia L ^a   Rangel, Shawn J ^a   Bachur, Richard G ^a   Taylor, George A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; CT; Pediatrics; Radiation dose reduction; Size specific dose estimate

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ARTIFACT; ECHOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTIFACTS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928427163     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.12965     Document Type: Article

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