Diagnostic imaging: Radiation dose and patient's concerns

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 583-586

  Lockwood, Daniel ^a   Einstein, David ^a   Davros, William ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROCEPHALY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TERATOGENESIS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745114708     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.73.6.583     Document Type: Article

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