Multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT): the dose challenge of the new revolution.

Journal article

Multislice computed tomography (MSCT) has dramatically increased the flexibility and availability of computed tomography (CT), so that the technique is being used increasingly across a widening range of applications. However CT still remains a technique with high absorbed radiation dose, and contributes an increasingly greater proportion of the total collective dose from man-made sources of radiation. Many, but not all, new applications are supported by clinical benefit. Additionally, the exa...

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Authors: Golding, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Radiation protection dosimetry
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 1-3
• Pages: 303-307
• Publication date: 2005-01-01
• DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch545
• EISSN: 1742-3406
• ISSN: 0144-8420
• Language: English
• Keywords: Tomography, Spiral Computed; Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed; Pancreatic Neoplasms; Radiography, Abdominal; Carcinoma; Angiography; Humans; Radiation Dosage; Radiometry; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Radiography, Thoracic; Liver Neoplasms; Phantoms, Imaging; Head; Skull; Tomography, X-Ray Computed