Patient effective radiation dose and associated risk from transmission scans using 153Gd line sources in cardiac SPECT studies

Health Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 66-74

  Perisinakis, Kostas ^a   Theocharopoulos, Nicholas ^a   Karkavitsas, Nicholas ^a   Damilakis, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Effective dose; Medical radiation; Phantom; Thermoluminescence dosimetry

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM 153; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MALE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0036283764     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200207000-00007     Document Type: Article

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