Conceptus radiation dose assessment from fluoroscopically assisted surgical treatment of hip fractures

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2594-2601

  Damilakis, J ^a   Theocharopoulos, N ^a   Perisinakis, K ^a   Papadokostakis, G ^a   Hadjipavlou, A ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

DAP; ESD; Fetal dose; Thermoluminescence dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; FRACTURE; OBSTETRICS; PHANTOMS; SURGERY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; DOSE CONVERSION FACTOR; FETAL DOSE; SCATTERING RADIATION; SURGICAL TREATMENT; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

EID: 0142121521     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1605511     Document Type: Article

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