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Results from the German ‘Concerted Action Dose Reduction in CT'

• Proceedings '5 years of 'Concerted Action Dose Reduction in CT' - what has been achieved and what remains to be done?' (in German)
• Report 'CT exposure practice in the Federal Republic of Germany - results of a nation-wide survey in 1999' (in German, abstract in English)
• Publication 'Radiation exposure in multi-slice versus single-slice spiral CT – results of a nationwide survey'
• Report 'Pediatric CT exposure practice in the Federal Republic of Germany – results of a nation-wide survey in 2005/06'
• Textbook 'Guideline for optimization of the radiation exposure of CT examinations'
• Textbook 'Radiation exposure in computed tomography' (Info)

Software for CT dose assessment

• Dose evaluation software CT-Expo v2.8 (Info) NEW
  
• Latest demo version CT-Expo v2.5 (E) demo
• Presentation on 'Software for CT dose assessment'
• Publication 'CT-Expo - a Novel Program for Dose Evaluation in CT' (in German, abstract in English) (Link)
• Publication 'Assessment of a theoretical formalism for dose estimation in CT: an anthropomorphic phantom study' (Link)

Additional material

• Proceedings contribution 'Significance of overbeaming and overranging effects of single- and multi-slice CT scanners'
• Book chapter 'Radiation dose issues with MSCT'
• Book chapter 'CT parameters that influence the radiation dose'
• ICRP-Report 102 'Managing patient dose in multi-detector computed tomography' (excerpt)
• UNSCEAR 2013 report Vol. II Scientific Annex B 'Effects of Radiation Exposure of Children' (excerpt) 
• Article 'Multislice CT Technology'
• Article 'Current Exposure Practice with Multislice CT'
• Publication 'Performance of an Automatic Dose Control System for CT: Specifications and Basic Phantom Tests' (Info)
• Publication 'Performance of an Automatic Dose Control System for CT: Anthropomorphic Phantom Studies' (Info)
• Publication 'Performance of an Automatic Dose Control System for CT: Patient Studies' (Info)
• Publication ‚Current CT practice in Germany: Results and implications of nationwide survey' (Info)

Topic 'Asbestos'

• Protocol recommendations for low-dose chest CT exams (in German)
• Congress abstract P. G. Natali 'A Deadly Asbestos Family Saga'
• Presentation P. G. Natali 'A Deadly Asbestos Family Saga' (Link)

Presentations

• Presentation 'Dosimetric Issues with CT Scanners Beyond 64 Rows'
  
• Presentation 'Organ Dose Assessment in CT'