Dose reduction in CT while maintaining diagnostic confidence: Diagnostic reference levels at routine head, chest, and abdominal CT - IAEA-coordinated research project

Radiology

Volumn 240, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 828-834

  Tsapaki, Virginia ^a   Aldrich, John E ^b   Sharma, Raju ^c   Staniszewska, Maria Anna ^d   Krisanachinda, Anchali ^e   Rehani, Madan ^f   Hufton, Alan ^g   Triantopoulou, Chariklia ^a   Maniatis, Petros N ^a   Papailiou, John ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^h  

^a AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^e CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^f INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^g CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEAD; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; TECHNOLOGY; THORAX SCINTISCANNING;

FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747620740     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2403050993     Document Type: Article

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