Investigation into patient doses for intravenous urography and proposed Irish diagnostic reference levels

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1529-1533

  Carroll, E M ^a   Brennan, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Diagnostic reference levels; Intravenous urograms; Radiation doses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; X RAY FILM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 0037591874     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1792-5     Document Type: Article

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