Patient dosimetry approaches in interventional cardiology and literature dose data review

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 117, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 217-221

  Padovani, Renato ^a   Quai, E ^a,b  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLISHING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RISK; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33645222049     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci751     Document Type: Review

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