Maintaining image quality for paediatric chest CTs while lowering dose: FBP versus SAFIRE

Objectives: Children have a greater risk from radiation, per unit dose, due to increased radiosensitivity and longer life expectancies. It is of paramount importance to reduce the radiation dose received by children. This research concerns chest CT examinations on paediatric patients. The purpose of...

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Main Author: Borge, Synnøve (author)
Other Authors: Campbell, Nina (author), Gomes, Ana (author), Raszkowski, Aysha M. (author), Rook, Jan Willem (author), Sanderud, Audun (author), Vallinga, Anique (author), Vouillamoz, Audrey (author), Buissink, Carst (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Filtered back projection
Computed tomography
Paediatric patients
Chest
Image quality
Dose reduction
SAFIRE
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/5022
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipl.pt:10400.21/5022

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/5022

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