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Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT of Children

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Book cover Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography

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Abstract

Radiation risks based on biology and physics have been covered in previous chapters and are, of course, also valid for children. In the same way, clinical approaches to dose optimization and reduction are similar in paediatric and adult CT examinations (Huda et al. 2000). This chapter will not repeat what has been said but concentrate on the fact that children are not just adults with smaller dimensions, thus it will rather point out what is different in children.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital Inselspital, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

    Peter Vock MD & Rainer Wolf MD

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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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Vock, P., Wolf, R. (2007). Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT of Children. 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_15

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