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Automatic Exposure Control in Multidetector-row CT

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Radiation Dose from Multidetector CT

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Automatic exposure control (AEC) is one of the most important aspects of radiation dose and image quality optimization for CT scanning. It is important to use this technique appropriately in order to obtain CT examinations with required image quality and/or radiation dose levels as improper use can lead to much lower or much higher radiation doses to patients undergoing CT examinations. There is similarity in basic principle behind different AEC techniques across different CT vendors but there are considerable differences between how the techniques are applied on platforms of different CT vendors. This chapter discusses various techniques of AEC available for use on clinical CT equipments.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Mannudeep K. Kalra

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  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Fruit St. 55, Boston, 02114, Massachusetts, USA

    Mannudeep K. Kalra

  3. Hôspital Erasme, Department of Radiology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, Brussels, 1070, Belgium

    Pierre Alain Gevenois

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Kalra, M.K. (2011). Automatic Exposure Control in Multidetector-row CT. In: Tack, D., Kalra, M., Gevenois, P. (eds) Radiation Dose from Multidetector CT. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2011_480

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