Effects of CT irradiation on implantable cardiac rhythm management devices

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 766-774

  McCollough, Cynthia H ^a   Zhang, Jie ^a   Primak, Andrew N ^a   Clement, Wesley J ^b   Buysman, John R ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SAFETY; X RAY;

ARTIFACTS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249046434     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2433060993     Document Type: Article

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