Embryo/fetus radiation dose and risk from dual X-ray absorptiometry examinations

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 716-722

  Damilakis, J ^a   Perisinakis, K ^a   Vrahoriti, H ^a   Kontakis, G ^b   Varveris, H ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Dual X ray absorptiometry; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; CANCER RISK; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EMBRYO; FEMUR; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPINE CANCER; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK; SPINE;

EID: 0036714196     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001980200098     Document Type: Article

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