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In 1992, the first third generation scanner with more than a single row of detectors (Elscint CT Twin) was introduced on the market. The simple fact that it was now possible to scan two slices simultaneously gave rise to some guesswork as to how this might affect patient dose. Whereas some believed that the patient dose must double (because two slices were irradiated instead of one), others argued that the dose was rather halved (because the total mAs product was reduced by a factor two).
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Nagel, HD. (2004). Radiation Dose Issues with MSCT. In: Reiser, M.F., Takahashi, M., Modic, M., Becker, C.R. (eds) Multislice CT. Diagnostic Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05379-9_2
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