Browsing by Subject "patient-specific"
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Automated Assessment of Image Quality and Dose Attributes in Clinical CT Images
(2016)Computed tomography (CT) is a valuable technology to the healthcare enterprise as evidenced by the more than 70 million CT exams performed every year. As a result, CT has become the largest contributor to population doses ... -
Design and Implementation of an Institution-Wide Patient-Specific Radiation Dose Monitoring Program for Computed Tomography, Digital Radiography, and Nuclear Medicine
(2011)Recently, there has been renewed interest in decreasing radiation dose to patients from diagnostic imaging procedures. So far, efforts to decrease radiation dose have focused on the amount of radiation delivered from typical ... -
Development and Application of Patient-Informed Metrics of Image Quality in CT
(2020)The purpose of this dissertation was to develop methods of measuring patient-specific image quality in computed tomography. The methods developed in this dissertation enable noise power spectrum, low contrast resolution, ...
