Automated tube voltage selection in thoracoabdominal computed tomography at high pitch using a third-generation dual-source scanner

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 352-360

  Lurz, Markus ^a   Lell, Michael M ^a,b   Wuest, Wolfgang ^a   Eller, Achim ^a   Scharf, Michael ^a   Uder, Michael ^a,b   May, Matthias Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

abdomen; chest; dual source CT; high pitch; image quality; tube voltage

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; CAVA VEIN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LUNG; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROPERITONEUM; SOFT TISSUE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOABDOMINAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; VERY ELDERLY; VESSEL; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84928597636     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000133     Document Type: Article

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