CT-guided interventional procedures without CT fluoroscopy assistance: Patient effective dose and absorbed dose considerations

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1479-1484

  Tsalafoutas, Ioannis A ^a,b   Tsapaki, Virginia ^a   Triantopoulou, Charicleia ^a   Gorantonaki, Akrivi ^a   Papailiou, John ^a  

^a AGIA OLGA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Agios Savvas Cancer Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biopsy; CT; Interventional radiology; Radiation dose; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; NEPHROSTOMY; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ABSORPTION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BODY BURDEN; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249889997     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.0705     Document Type: Article

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