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William Shakespeare might have accidentally explained the premise for development of automatic exposure control (AEC) techniques, although Henry Miller might have summarized the issues related to the heterogeneous nomenclature of these techniques!
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- Tube Current Modulation
- Automatic Exposure Control
- Automatic Tube Current Modulation
- Localizer Radiograph
- Desire Image Quality
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Kalra, M.K. (2007). Automatic Exposure Control in Multidetector-Row Computed Tomography. In: Tack, D., Gevenois, P.A. (eds) Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68575-3_7
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