Effective Doses in Radiology and Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine: A Catalog1

FA Mettler Jr, W Huda, TT Yoshizumi, M Mahesh - Radiology, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
Medical uses of radiation have grown very rapidly over the past decade, and, as of 2007,
medical uses represent the largest source of exposure to the US population. Most …

State of the art: dual-energy CT of the abdomen

D Marin, DT Boll, A Mileto, RC Nelson - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Recent technologic advances in computed tomography (CT)—enabling the nearly
simultaneous acquisition of clinical images using two different x-ray energy spectra—have …

Dual-energy multidetector CT: how does it work, what can it tell us, and when can we use it in abdominopelvic imaging?

CA Coursey, RC Nelson, DT Boll, EK Paulson… - Radiographics, 2010 - pubs.rsna.org
Dual-energy CT provides information about how substances behave at different energies,
the ability to generate virtual unenhanced datasets, and improved detection of iodine …

Low-tube-voltage, high-tube-current multidetector abdominal CT: improved image quality and decreased radiation dose with adaptive statistical iterative …

D Marin, RC Nelson, ST Schindera, S Richard… - Radiology, 2010 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To investigate whether an adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR)
algorithm improves the image quality at low-tube-voltage (80-kVp), high-tube-current (675 …

[HTML][HTML] Radiation dose reduction in computed tomography: techniques and future perspective

L Yu, X Liu, S Leng, JM Kofler… - Imaging in …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite universal consensus that computed tomography (CT) overwhelmingly benefits
patients when used for appropriate indications, concerns have been raised regarding the …

Oncologic applications of dual-energy CT in the abdomen

MD Agrawal, DF Pinho, NM Kulkarni, PF Hahn… - Radiographics, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Dual-energy computed tomographic (DECT) technology offers enhanced capabilities that
may benefit oncologic imaging in the abdomen. By using two different energies, dual-energy …

Achieving routine submillisievert CT scanning: report from the summit on management of radiation dose in CT

CH McCollough, GH Chen, W Kalender, S Leng… - Radiology, 2012 - pubs.rsna.org
This Special Report presents the consensus of the Summit on Management of Radiation
Dose in Computed Tomography (CT)(held in February 2011), which brought together …

CT perfusion of the liver: principles and applications in oncology

SH Kim, A Kamaya, JK Willmann - Radiology, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
With the introduction of molecularly targeted chemotherapeutics, there is an increasing need
for defining new response criteria for therapeutic success because use of morphologic …

Dual-and multi-energy CT: approach to functional imaging

J Fornaro, S Leschka, D Hibbeln, A Butler… - Insights into …, 2011 - Springer
The energy spectrum of X-ray photons after passage through an absorber contains
information about its elemental composition. Thus, tissue characterisation becomes feasible …

Dual-energy and low-kVp CT in the abdomen

BM Yeh, JA Shepherd, ZJ Wang… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to discuss the influence of tube potential on CT
images and explore the potential impact of dual-energy CT on imaging of the abdomen and …