Size-specific Dose Estimation for CT: How Should It Be Used and What Does It Mean?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Size-specific dose estimation for CT: how should it be used and what does it mean?
1 From the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 789 Howard Ave, TE2-230, New Haven, CT 06519-1304 (J.A.B.); and Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla (R.L.M.). Received August 26, 2012; revision requested August 28; revision received and final version accepted August 30. Address correspondence to J.A.B. (e-mail: [email protected]).
متن کاملTigecycline: what is it, and where should it be used?
Tigecycline is the first glycylcycline to be launched and is one of the very few new antimicrobials with activity against Gram-negative bacteria. It evades acquired efflux and target-mediated resistance to classical tetracyclines, but not chromosomal efflux in Proteeae and Pseudomonas. Cmax+ is low, but tissue penetration is excellent and the compound has shown equivalence to imipenem/cilastati...
متن کاملWhat Does It Mean to Be Musical?
Music can be seen as a model system for understanding gene × environment interactions and how these can influence neurocognitive development. The concept of musicality, however, is underspecified and not well understood. Here, I propose a framework for defining musicality to provide a foundation for studying the contributions of biological and environmental factors.
متن کاملWhat does it mean to be green?
Today a company is not considered environmentalist unless it moves beyond mere compliance with government regulations to behavior its competitors, and even customers, do not expect. How should it set its agenda? Author Art Kleiner proposes that, to be green, a company must ask three questions: What products should we bring to market? How much disclosure of pollution information should we suppor...
متن کاملWhat Does It Mean and How Do We Measure It?
T he paper by Bonow et al' in this issue of Circulation reports important empirical observations on measuring myocardial viability in humans with the potassium analogue thallium-201. After obtaining standard 20'1f exercise and redistribution images, a second dose of 201TI was injected and a third (reinjection) image was obtained beginning 10-15 minutes later. The reinjection images identified v...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Radiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0033-8419,1527-1315
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12121919