Radiation dose to patients and radiologists during transcatheter arterial embolization: Comparison of a digital flat-panel system and conventional unit

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 855-859

  Suzuki, Shigeru ^a   Furui, Shigeru ^a   Kobayashi, Ikuo ^b   Yamauchi, Teiyu ^a   Kohtake, Hiroshi ^a   Takeshita, Koji ^a   Takada, Koichi ^a   Yamagishi, Masafumi ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b LANDAUER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGIST; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUOROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER TUMOR; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; SKIN; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; X RAY FILM;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 32944471741     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1580     Document Type: Article

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