Determination of guidance levels of dose for diagnostic radiography in Taiwan

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 850-857

  Tung, C J ^a   Tsai, H Y ^a   Lo, S H ^a   Guan, C N ^b   Chen, Y B ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dose constraint; Guidance level; Investigation level; Reference level; Reference value

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION PROTECTION; SURVEYS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOSE CONSTRAINT; INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; INVESTIGATION LEVEL; POINT OF INTERSECTIONS; REFERENCE LEVELS; REFERENCE VALUES;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; TAIWAN;

EID: 0035017777     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1368126     Document Type: Article

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