Health risks of low photon energy imaging

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 528-533

  Redpath, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER RISK; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SAFETY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34347384020     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl449     Document Type: Article

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