Emergency assessment of patients with acute abdominal pain using low-dose CT with iterative reconstruction: a comparative study.

Objectives: To determine if radiation dose delivered by contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) for acute abdominal pain can be reduced to the dose administered in abdominal radiography (<2.5 mSv) using low-dose CT (LDCT) with iterative reconstruction algorithms.Methods: One hundred and fifty-one consecutive pa...

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Published in:European Radiology Vol. 27; no. 8; pp. 3300 - 3310
Main Authors: Poletti, Pierre-Alexandre, Becker, Minerva, Becker, Christoph, Halfon Poletti, Alice, Rutschmann, Olivier, Zaidi, Habib, Perneger, Thomas, Platon, Alexandra, Becker, Christoph D, Rutschmann, Olivier T
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2017
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