Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography addresses the radiation risks and their underlying mechanisms.

The first part of the book provides a comprehensive approach to all the factors that influence the radiation dose and subsequently the risk induced by using MDCT in children and adult patients.

In the second part, guidelines are proposed for optimization of the radiation dose in order to obtain an image quality sufficient for appropriate diagnostic performance while restricting the dose delivered.

This book is for all professionals involved in MDCT.

Contents

1. Clinical Expansion of CT and Radiation Dose

Part I: Radiation Risks in Multidetector CT

2. Risks from Ionizing Radiations
3. The Cancer Risk from Low-Level Radiation
4. CT Parameters that Influence the Radiation Dose
5. Collective Radiation Dose from MDCT: Critial Review and Survey Studies
6. Methods for Reducing the Radiation Dose from MDCT Including Image Quality
7. Automatic Exposure Control in Multidetector-Row CT
8. Patient Centering and CT Radiation Dose

Part II: Clinical Approaches of Dose Optimization, and Reduction

9. Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT of Head and Neck Including Brain
10. Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT of the Chest
11. Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT of the Abdomen
12. Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT Angiography and Cardiac CT
13. Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT of the Musculoskeletal System Including the Spine
14. Dose Reduction in CT Fluoroscopy
15. Dose Optimization and Reduction in CT of Children
16. Radiation Risk Management in Low Dose MDCT Screening Programs

Index

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