Female breast radiation exposure during CT pulmonary angiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1228-1233

  Parker, Mark S ^a   Hui, Ferdinand K ^a   Camacho, Marc A ^a   Chung, Jiyearn K ^a   Broga, Dean W ^a   Sethi, Narinder N ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOHEXOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644843754     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.0770     Document Type: Review

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