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Practical Approaches to Dose Reduction: GE Perspective

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Radiation Dose from Multidetector CT

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This chapter will cover the GE perspective on controlling CT dose through system design features in both hardware and software. We will show how GE scanners have been designed to optimize the dose delivered while achieving the image quality required for the clinical task.

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  1. GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA

    Roy A. Nilsen

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  1. , Department of Radiology, Reseau Hospitaller de Medecine Sociale, Baudour, Belgium

    Denis Tack

  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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Nilsen, R.A. (2012). Practical Approaches to Dose Reduction: GE Perspective. 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_486

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