Managing patient dose in computed tomography

Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection

1961 • 5,945 citations

CT scanning: patterns of use and dose

2000 • 659 citations

Revised radiation doses for typical X-ray examinations. Report on a recent review of doses to patients from medical X-ray examinations in the UK by NRPB. National Radiological Protection Board.

1997 • 417 citations

VIP-MAN: AN IMAGE-BASED WHOLE-BODY ADULT MALE MODEL CONSTRUCTED FROM COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT FOR MULTI-PARTICLE MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS

2000 • 356 citations

Low-dose CT of the lungs: preliminary observations.

1990 • 319 citations

Dose reduction in CT by on-line tube current control: principles and validation on phantoms and cadavers

1999 • 247 citations

A PC program for estimating organ dose and effective dose values in computed tomography

1999 • 231 citations

CT scanner dosimetry.

1998 • 194 citations

CT of the chest: minimal tube current required for good image quality with the least radiation dose.

1995 • 159 citations

Recommended Standards For The Routine Performance Testing of Diagnostic X-Ray Imaging Systems

1998 • 145 citations

Radiation dosimetry at CT fluoroscopy: physician's hand dose and development of needle holders.

1996 • 127 citations

Chronic infiltrative lung disease: comparison of diagnostic accuracies of radiography and low- and conventional-dose thin-section CT.

1994 • 120 citations

An EGS4-ready tomographic computational model of a 14-year-old female torso for calculating organ doses from CT examinations

1999 • 114 citations

A Realistic Anthropomorphic Phantom for Calculating Organ Doses Arising from External Photon Irradiation

1997 • 102 citations

Low-dose spiral CT: applicability to paediatric chest imaging

1999 • 87 citations

Lung Cancer Screening: Minimum Tube Current Required for Helical CT

2000 • 79 citations

Comparison of two methods for assessing patient dose from computed tomography

1994 • 69 citations

The Historical Development of Reference Doses in Diagnostic Radiology

1998 • 67 citations

Radiation exposure of patients who undergo CT of the trunk.

1995 • 62 citations

Would thyroid and breast shielding be beneficial in CT of the head?

1998 • 58 citations

The Increasing Importance of X Ray Computed Tomography as a Source of Medical Exposure

1995 • 53 citations

Doses to Patients from Medical X-ray Examinations in the UK: 1995 Review

1996 • 53 citations

Organ Doses for Children from Computed Tomographic Examinations

1995 • 51 citations

Application of draft European Commission reference levels to a regional CT dose survey.

2000 • 48 citations

The Quality Criteria for Computed Tomography

1998 • 48 citations

Real-time CT and CT fluoroscopy

2001 • 46 citations

Effektivität der Bleiabdeckung zur Dosisreduktion beim Patienten in der Computertomographie

1996 • 45 citations

Dose reduction during CT scanning in an anthropomorphic phantom by the use of a male gonad shield.

1999 • 37 citations

Analysis of Factors Influencing Patient Doses from CT in Norway

1997 • 34 citations

Reference Doses in Computed Tomography

1998 • 33 citations

Diagnostic medical exposures. Advice on exposure to ionising radiation during pregnancy

1998 • 32 citations

Quality criteria implementation for brain and lumbar spine CT examinations.

2000 • 22 citations

[Estimation of effective dose from CT examination].

1995 • 20 citations

Dose and Image Quality of Electron-Beam CT Compared with Spiral CT

1999 • 19 citations

Is computed tomography of the body overused? An audit of 2068 attendances in a large acute hospital

1996 • 18 citations

Methods for Assessing Organ Doses using Computational Models

1998 • 18 citations

Niedrigdosis Dental-CT

1999 • 16 citations

The radiation exposure of the patient from stablexenon computed tomography

1995 • 16 citations

A Comparison of Measured and Calculated Organ Doses from CT Examinations

1995 • 9 citations