Open AccessSize-specific Dose Estimates for Chest, Abdominal, and Pelvic CT: Effect of Intrapatient Variability in Water-equivalent Diameter
Author(s) -
Shuai Leng,
Maria Shiung,
Xinhui Duan,
Lifeng Yu,
Yi Zhang,
Cynthia H. McCollough
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.118
H-Index - 295
eISSN - 1527-1315
pISSN - 0033-8419
DOI - 10.1148/radiol.15142160
Subject(s) - medicine , pelvis , abdomen , nuclear medicine , computed tomographic , water equivalent , computed tomography , torso , radiology , position (finance) , anatomy , physics , finance , meteorology , snow , economics
To develop software to automatically calculate size-specific dose estimates (SSDEs) and to assess the effect of variations in water-equivalent diameter (Dw) along the z-axis on SSDE for computed tomographic (CT) examinations of the torso.
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