Radiation dose reduction at a price: The effectiveness of a male gonadal shield during helical CT scans

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Dauer, Lawrence T ^a   Casciotta, Kevin A ^a   Erdi, Yusuf E ^a   Rothenberg, Lawrence N ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; GONAD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIATION SHIELD; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEVICES; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TESTIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33947621537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-7-5     Document Type: Article

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