Population effective collective dose from nuclear medicine examination in Cuba

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 438-444

  Flores, O Brígido ^a   Caballero, A Barreras ^b   Sánchez, O Lasserra ^b   Estrada, A Montalván ^a   García, J Hernández ^b  

^a Department of Applied Nuclear Techniques   (Cuba)

^b Oncological Hospital 'Maria Curie'   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID TC 99M; DISOFENIN TC 99M; IODINE 131; IODOHIPPURATE SODIUM I 131; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PENTETATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT SCINTISCANNING; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CUBA; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS SCINTISCANNING; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; IODINE 131 UPTAKE TEST; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; SALIVARY GLAND SCINTISCANNING; SCINTIMAMMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

BODY BURDEN; CUBA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33846033921     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl049     Document Type: Article

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