Patient and staff dosimetry in vertebroplasty

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Fitousi, Niki T ^a   Efstathopoulos, Efstathios P ^b   Delis, Harry B ^a   Kottou, Sofia ^b   Kelekis, Alexis D ^b   Panayiotakis, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Radiation protection; Vertebroplasty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FILM DOSIMETER; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RISK FACTOR; SKIN SURFACE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATIENTS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; SKIN; SPINE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 33750559607     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000244586.02151.18     Document Type: Article

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