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Dose Reduction and Optimization in Computed Tomography of the Chest

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Since the late 1980s, helical computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic imaging of the chest. Single-detector CT scanners (SDCT) and, more recently, multi-detector CT scanners (MDCT) have markedly increased the number of indications of CT. As a result, the number of CT examinations performed has increased dramatically, as have the average scanned volume per patient and the number of acquisitions per examination. The subsequent increase in collective radiation dose has been of concern to radiologists, medical physicists and governmental regulatory authorities and it has been suggested that the radiation dose used for CT was excessive (Rogers 2001a, b).

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  1. Clinic of Chest Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Pierre Alain Gevenois MD, PhD (Professor of Radiology)

  2. Clinic of Cardiac Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Denis Tack MD, PhD

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  1. Clinic of Cardiac Imaging Department of Radiology Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Denis Tack MD, PhD

  2. Clinic of Chest Imaging Department of Radiology Hôpital Erasme, Université libre de Bruxelles, Route de Lennik 808, 1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Pierre Alain Gevenois MD, PhD (Professor of Radiology) (Professor of Radiology)

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Gevenois, P.A., Tack, D. (2007). Dose Reduction and Optimization in Computed Tomography of the Chest. In: Tack, D., Gevenois, P.A. (eds) Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68575-3_10

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