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

Poletti, Pierre-Alexandre Alois; Becker, Minerva; Becker, Christoph; Halfon Poletti, Alice Esther; Rutschmann, Olivier Thierry; Zaidi, Habib; Perneger, Thomas; Platon, Alexandra

doi:10.1007/s00330-016-4712-9

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

ContributorsPoletti, Pierre-Alexandre Alois; Becker, Minerva; Becker, Christoph; Halfon Poletti, Alice Esther; Rutschmann, Olivier Thierry; Zaidi, Habib

; Perneger, Thomas; Platon, Alexandra

Published inEuropean radiology, vol. 27, no. 8, p. 3300-3309

Publication date2017

Abstract

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.

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POLETTI, Pierre-Alexandre Alois et al. Emergency assessment of patients with acute abdominal pain using low-dose CT with iterative reconstruction: a comparative study. In: European radiology, 2017, vol. 27, n° 8, p. 3300–3309. doi: 10.1007/s00330-016-4712-9

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PID : unige:94289
DOI : 10.1007/s00330-016-4712-9
PMID : 28083698

Additional URL for this publicationhttp://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00330-016-4712-9

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

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.

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