Evaluation of methods to estimate the patient dose in interventional radiology

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 178-184

  Kosunen, Antti ^a   Komppa, T ^a   Toivonen, M ^a  

^a STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKIN ABSORPTION;

CALIBRATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; X-RAYS;

EID: 33645210606     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci712     Document Type: Review

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